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Theme

noun
1.
The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.  Synonyms: subject, topic.  "It was a very sensitive topic" , "His letters were always on the theme of love"
2.
A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work.  Synonym: motif.
3.
(music) melodic subject of a musical composition.  Synonyms: idea, melodic theme, musical theme.  "The accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
4.
An essay (especially one written as an assignment).  Synonyms: composition, paper, report.
5.
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed.  Synonyms: base, radical, root, root word, stem.
verb
1.
Provide with a particular theme or motive.



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"Theme" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Somerset and Wilts Journal the songs sung by the boys and girls of the Radstock National Schools on Empire Day included "Raise the Flagon High." We cannot but think this Bacchic theme a little ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 • Various
... had so many variations, however, like a piece of music, was to return to the original theme before it closed. It had been a day of forebodings and anxiety. Fate never permitted Elizabeth Farnshaw more than a short snatch at happiness, and as John Hunter drove away after he had helped her deposit ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger
... to speculate on this theme, however, for the next instant a piteous cry broke from the girl's lips—a cry in a voice strangely familiar; a cry that sent the blood bounding through his heart like an electric shock—and before he could take a step forward to prevent it, the slender ...
— Jolly Sally Pendleton - The Wife Who Was Not a Wife • Laura Jean Libbey
... Silver Fox Patrol when on one of their vacation trips to the wonderland of the great Northwest. How apparent disaster is bravely met and overcome by Thad and his friends, forms the main theme of the story, which abounds in plenty ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... property for twenty years, and would now rob him of half his revenge. Not that he ever spoke even to himself of revenge. "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord." He would have been as able as any man to quote the words, and as willing. Justice, outraged justice, was his theme. Whom had he ever robbed? To whom had he not paid all that was owing? "All that have I done from my youth upwards." Such were his thoughts of himself; and with such thoughts was it possible that he should willingly be absent from Alston during such ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope


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