theme : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: theme	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for theme
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
theme n the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love" Synonym(s): subject, topic, theme a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme" Synonym(s): theme, motif (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it" Synonym(s): theme, melodic theme, musical theme, idea an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition" Synonym(s): composition, paper, report, theme (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" Synonym(s): root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical v provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theme \Theme\, n. [OE. teme, OF. teme, F. th[8a]me, L. thema, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to set, place. See {Do}, and cf. {Thesis}.] 1. A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text. My theme is alway one and ever was. --Chaucer. And when a soldier was the theme, my name Was not far off. --Shak. 2. Discourse on a certain subject. Then ran repentance and rehearsed his theme. --Piers Plowman. It was the subject of my theme. --Shak. 3. A composition or essay required of a pupil. --Locke. 4. (Gram.) A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem. 5. That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument. [Obs.] --Swift. 6. (Mus.) The leading subject of a composition or a movement.