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    theme
    [THēm]
    noun
    theme (noun) · themes (plural noun)
    1. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic:
      "the theme of the sermon was reverence" · "a show on the theme of waste and recycling"
      • linguistics
        the first major constituent of a clause, indicating the subject-matter, typically being the subject but optionally other constituents, as in “poor he is not.”. Contrasted with rheme
      • US ENGLISH
        an essay written by a student on an assigned subject.
    2. an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature:
      "love and honor are the pivotal themes of the Hornblower books"
    3. a setting given to a leisure venue or activity, intended to evoke a particular country, historical period, culture, etc.:
      "a family fun park with a western theme" · "a New Deal theme restaurant"
    4. linguistics
      the stem of a noun or verb; the part to which inflections are added, especially one composed of the root and an added vowel.
    5. historical
      any of the twenty-nine provinces in the Byzantine empire.
    verb
    theme (verb) · themes (third person present) · themed (past tense) · themed (past participle) · theming (present participle)
    1. give a particular setting or ambience to (a venue or activity):
      "the amusement park will be themed as a Caribbean pirate stronghold"
    Origin
    Middle English: via Old French from Latin thema, from Greek, literally ‘proposition’; related to tithenai ‘to set or place’.
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  2. Synonyms for "theme" in literature include:
    • Topic
    • Motif
    • Matter
    • Question
    • Subject
    • Content
    • Idea
    • Essence12
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    Synonyms for THEME: topic, motif, matter, question, subject, content, idea, essence; Antonyms of THEME: aside, tangent, excursion, digression, parenthesis, interjection
    www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/theme
    Synonyms for THEME: argument, subject, point, text, topic, idea, subject matter, matter, thesis, proposition, matter in hand, problem, article, question, burden, point at issue, chorus, composition, affair.
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