Definitions for theme

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Spelling: [theem]

IPA: /θim/

Theme is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in theme (eehmt).

Definitions for theme

noun

1. a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:
2. a unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc., as in a work of art.
3. a short, informal essay, especially a school composition.
4. Music. a principal melodic subject in a musical composition. a short melodic subject from which variations are developed.
5. Grammar. the element common to all or most of the forms of an inflectional paradigm, often consisting of a root with certain formative elements or modifications. Compare stem1 (def 16).
6. Linguistics. topic (def 4).
7. Also, thema. an administrative division of the Byzantine Empire.

adjective

1. having a unifying theme:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a theme.

Origin of theme

1250-1300; Middle English teme, theme (Old French teme) Medieval Latin thema, Latin Greek théma proposition, deposit, akin to tithénai to put, set down

Examples for theme

His eyes shone, and his face flushed with the fervor of his theme.

A subject was offered him, in which no other poet would have found a theme for the Muse.

At the present moment it is to me the only theme worthy of a man's entire attention.

Yeah, I mean, the theme of this episode is an interesting one.

In the comics, a theme that recurs again and again is Wonder Woman being tied up, then breaking free.

Warming to his theme, Argiros adds, “All human life passes through here- the good bad and the ugly.”

The theme was the same as that of Mr. Gladstone's letter, to which it was regarded as an answer.

I recur to it here as a plausible suggestion only, in connection with my theme.

The issue explored the theme of vulnerability, “relevant to anyone who seeks understanding, change, love, and belonging.”

At the suggestion of founder Maneesh Goyal, the company went with a Pee-wee Herman theme.