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1 ?subject?
2 theme music/song/tune
3 ?repeated tune?
4 ?style?
5 ?piece of writing?
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[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Latin; Origin: thema, from Greek, 'something laid down, theme', from tithenai 'to put']
?SUBJECT?
the main subject or idea in a piece of writing, speech, film etc
::The book's theme is the conflict between love and duty.
main/central/major etc theme
::Campbell has made health care a central theme in his campaign.
::Nature is a recurrent theme (=a theme that appears repeatedly) in Frost's poetry.
::Most of Kurt's other pictures were variations on the same theme .
theme music/song/tune
music or a song that is often played during a film or musical play, or at the beginning and end of a television or radio programme
::the theme song from 'The Brady Bunch'
?REPEATED TUNE?
a short simple tune that is repeated and developed in a piece of music
::Freia's theme in Wagner's opera
?STYLE?
a particular style
::Her bedroom is decorated in a Victorian theme.
?PIECE OF WRITING?
AmE old-fashioned a short piece of writing on a particular subject that you do for school
-synonym essay essay theme on
::Your homework is to write a two-page theme on pollution.