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subject sub·ject

Spelling: [noun, adjective suhb-jikt; verb suh b- Subject is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in subject (bcejstu).

Definitions for subject

noun

1. that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.:
2. a branch of knowledge as a course of study:
3. a motive, cause, or ground:
4. the theme of a sermon, book, story, etc.
5. the principal melodic motif or phrase in a musical composition, especially in a fugue.
6. an object, scene, incident, etc., chosen by an artist for representation, or as represented in art.
7. a person who is under the dominion or rule of a sovereign.
8. a person who owes allegiance to a government and lives under its protection:
9. Grammar. (in English and many other languages) a syntactic unit that functions as one of the two main constituents of a simple sentence, the other being the predicate, and that consists of a noun, noun phrase, or noun substitute which often refers to the one performing the action or being in the state expressed by the predicate, as He in He gave notice.
10. a person or thing that undergoes or may undergo some action:
11. a person or thing under the control or influence of another.
12. a person as an object of medical, surgical, or psychological treatment or experiment.
13. a cadaver used for dissection.
14. Logic. that term of a proposition concerning which the predicate is affirmed or denied.
15. Philosophy. that which thinks, feels, perceives, intends, etc., as contrasted with the objects of thought, feeling, etc. the self or ego.
16. Metaphysics. that in which qualities or attributes inhere; substance.

adjective

1. being under domination, control, or influence (often followed by to).
2. being under dominion, rule, or authority, as of a sovereign, state, or some governing power; owing allegiance or obedience (often followed by to).
3. open or exposed (usually followed by to):
4. being dependent or conditional upon something (usually followed by to):
5. being under the necessity of undergoing something (usually followed by to):
6. liable; prone (usually followed by to):

verb (used with object)

1. to bring under domination, control, or influence (usually followed by to).
2. to bring under dominion, rule, or authority, as of a conqueror or a governing power (usually followed by to).
3. to cause to undergo the action of something specified; expose (usually followed by to):
4. to make liable or vulnerable; lay open; expose (usually followed by to):
5. Obsolete. to place beneath something; make subjacent.

Origin of subject

1275-1325; (adj.) Latin subjectus placed beneath, inferior, open to inspection, orig. past participle of subicere to throw or place beneath, make subject, equivalent to sub- Examples for subject

He was not timid, however, and resolved to broach the subject.

I had visited distilleries all over the world and reached a level of expertise about the subject.

At all events, this was a subject upon which I received no enlightening from their confidant.

He allows the subject to float over to Hitchcock with a calm directness that I admire.

Throughout the fifties, in city after city, fluoridation became the subject of fierce debate.

What he had to say therefore on the subject would not detain them long.

But there is one subject, on which my mind is filled with foreboding.

Mrs. Davis saw that there was no use in pursuing the subject, and it dropped.

No one knows what they're about but Boba Fett is rumored to be the subject of one.

Detainees there were subject to sleep deprivation, shackled to bars with their hands above their heads.