theme
Pronunciation: /θiːm/
The English word “theme” has 14 meanings listed here.
noun
- A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- A concept with multiple instantiations.
- Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
- An essay written for school.
- The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
- An additional puzzle within the crossword, typically involving a set of non-standard clues or answers.
- The stem of a word.
- Thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- Topic, what is generally being talked about.
- A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.
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