Theme

Noun

 * 1) a subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
 * 2) a recurring idea; a motif.
 * 3)  the main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
 * 4)  The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
 * 5)  stem of a word
 * 6)  thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb
 * 7)  theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
 * 8)  topic, what is being talked about, as opposed to rheme
 * 9) A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.

Related terms

 * thema
 * thematic
 * theme music
 * theme park
 * theme song
 * theme tune

Adjectives for Theme
lofty; abstract;  everlasting;  anti-social; pathetic; prolific; gracious; inspiring; majestic; unpleasant; paramount; inviting;curious; earnest; amusing; unsympathetic; spiritual; characteristic; animating; exotic; weak; idle; imperial; debatable; supermundane; pastoral; poetic; varying; irksome; inexhaustible; realistic; extraneous; fruitful; favorite; rusty; dangerous; conversational; immediate; romantic; human; pregnant; copious (pi); prevailing.

Verbs for Theme
allot—; alter—; clothe—; color—; comprehend—; criticize—; discard—; dramatize—; elucidate—; embellish—; embody—; evolve —; exhaust—; expatiate on—; expound—; found—; give rise to—; handle—; harp on —; interpret—; intertwine—; launch—; plunge into—; revert—; set forth—; tackle —; unfold—; variate—; vary—; ventilate —; voice—; weave—; —deals; —depicts; —dominates; —portrays; —stands upright; —symolizes.

Thesaurus
IC analysis, accidence, action, affix, affixation, allomorph, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, article, atmosphere, background, background detail, basis, bound morpheme, burden, case, catastrophe, causerie, chapter, characterization, color, complication, composition, concept, concern, conjugation, continuity, contrivance, core, cutting, declension, decorative composition, decorative style, denouement, derivation, descant, design, detail, development, device, difference of form, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, enclitic, episode, essay, essence, etude, examination, excursus, exercise, exposition, fable, falling action, feature, figure, first approach, focus of attention, focus of interest, foil, foreground detail, form, formative, free form, gimmick, gist, head, heading, homily, idea, immediate constituent analysis, incident, infix, infixation, inflection, introductory study, issue, keynote, leitmotiv, line, living issue, local color, lucubration, main point, matter, matter in hand, meat, memoir, monograph, mood, morceau, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, motif, motive, movement, mythos, national style, note, notion, ornamental motif, outline, pandect, paper, paradigm, paragraph, pattern, period style, peripeteia, phrase, piece, plan, plot, point, point at issue, point in question, prefix, prefixation, preliminary study, problem, proclitic, prolegomenon, question, radical, recognition, repeated figure, research paper, review, rising action, root, rubric, scheme, screed, secondary plot, setting, sketch, slant, special article, stem, story, structure, study, style, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, subplot, substance, suffix, suffixation, survey, switch, term paper, text, thematic development, thesis, thread, tone, topic, touch, tract, tractate, treatise, treatment, twist, word-formation

Etymology
From tesme: (French: thème:), from  thema:, from  θέμα:, from τίθημι:, reduplicative from  (whence also English do:).

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese: 主題, テーマ


 * Luxembourgish: Thema
 * Malay: tema
 * Romanian: temă
 * Romansch: tema
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: teema, aihe


 * Japanese: 主題


 * Finnish: teema


 * Japanese: テーマ


 * Japanese: テーマ


 * Finnish: vartalo


 * Finnish: aihe, puheenaihe


 * Hungarian: thema


 * : թեմա
 * : 主題, 主题 (zhǔtí), 題材, 题材 (tícái)
 * : თემა (t‘ema)
 * : प्रकरण
 * : 主題, 主题 (zhǔtí), 題材, 题材 (tícái)
 * : თემა (t‘ema)
 * : प्रकरण
 * : თემა (t‘ema)
 * : प्रकरण
 * : თემა (t‘ema)
 * : प्रकरण
 * : प्रकरण
 * : प्रकरण
 * : प्रकरण


 * : 주제 (juje)
 * : tēma
 * : сэдэв (sêdêv)
 * Cyrillic: тема
 * Roman: tema
 * : (gàen rêuang)
 * Cyrillic: тема
 * Roman: tema
 * : (gàen rêuang)
 * Cyrillic: тема
 * Roman: tema
 * : (gàen rêuang)
 * : (gàen rêuang)
 * : (gàen rêuang)