Definitions for topic

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topic top·ic

Spelling: [top-ik]

IPA: /ˈtɒp ɪk/

Topic is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in topic (ciopt).

Definitions for topic

noun

1. a subject of conversation or discussion:
2. the subject or theme of a discourse or of one of its parts.
3. Rhetoric, Logic. a general field of considerations from which arguments can be drawn.
4. Also called theme. Linguistics. the part of a sentence that announces the item about which the rest of the sentence communicates information, often signaled by initial position in the sentence or by a grammatical marker. Compare comment (def 7).

Origin of topic

1560-70; Latin topica (plural) Greek (tà) topiká name of work by Aristotle (literally, (things) pertaining to commonplaces), equivalent to tóp(os) commonplace + -ika, neuter plural of -ikos <

Examples for topic

Understandably, Borle has a lot to get off his chest on the topic.

Of course there was no official way to have these interviews given the sensitivity of the topic.

Each time she got on this topic I cut her short, vowing that if I ever married she only should be my wife.

Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Cezanne all frequented the circus and adopted it as a topic.

The other Twitter topic you are well known for is the topic of Salon.

In close connexion with the Survey and Lands Department is the topic of exploration.

Young Hiram had no patience with one's profession as a topic of conversation.

One topic that comes up among the members, she says, is dealing with loss years later.

No word on this topic has ever passed between Mr Henry Gowan and myself.'

You, Amy—hum—you alone and only you—constantly revive the topic, though not in words.'