theme
- Noun. a subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- Noun. a recurring idea; a motif.
- Noun. (music) the main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- Noun. (computing, figuratively) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
- Noun. (grammar) stem of a word.
- Noun. (linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- Noun. (linguistics) theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- Noun. (linguistics) topic, what is being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
- Noun. A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.