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noun

Theme n.

A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text. "My theme is alway one and ever was." "And when a soldier was the theme, my name Was not far off."

Discourse on a certain subject. "Then ran repentance and rehearsed his theme." "It was the subject of my theme."

A composition or essay required of a pupil.

(Gram.) A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem.

That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument. (Obs.)

(Mus.) The leading subject of a composition or a movement.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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