theme

  1. Noun.  a subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
  2. Noun.  a recurring idea; a motif.
  3. Noun.  (music) the main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
  4. Noun.  (computing, figuratively) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
  5. Noun.  (grammar) stem of a word.
  6. Noun.  (linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
  7. Noun.  (linguistics) theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
  8. Noun.  (linguistics) topic, what is being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
  9. Noun.  A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.

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