Synonyms for theme

Grammar : Noun

Spell : theem

Phonetic Transcription : θim

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Définition of theme

Origin : c.1300, from Old French tesme (13c., with silent -s-), from Latin thema "a subject, thesis," from Greek thema "a proposition, subject, deposit," literally "something set down," from root of tithenai "put down, place," from PIE root *dhe- "to put, to do" (see factitious). Extension to music first recorded 1670s; theme song first attested 1929. Theme park is from 1960.

noun idea, subject matter
noun written composition

Example sentences :

I recur to it here as a plausible suggestion only, in connection with my theme.
Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams

The theme was the same as that of Mr. Gladstone's letter, to which it was regarded as an answer.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

A subject was offered him, in which no other poet would have found a theme for the Muse.
Extract from : « Biographical Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

At the present moment it is to me the only theme worthy of a man's entire attention.
Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

His eyes shone, and his face flushed with the fervor of his theme.
Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

On this theme methinks I could frame a tale with a deep moral.
Extract from : « Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Then he murmured a few ominous generalities on the theme of necessity.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

And when she paused breathless her husband took up the theme.
Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

The subject is Liberty: you know, my honoured friend, how dear the theme is to me.
Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns

The three works will serve to complete each other, and they complete a cycle of the theme.
Extract from : « Bride of the Mistletoe » by James Lane Allen

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