theme
See also: thème
English
Etymology
From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θiːm/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: theme
- Rhymes: -iːm (for all senses)
- Rhymes: -iːmi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only) (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)
Noun
theme (plural themes)
- A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- A recurring idea; a motif.
- (dated) An essay written for school.
- 1917, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.
- 1917, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- (film, television) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
- (computing, figuratively) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
- (grammar) The stem of a word.
- (linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
- A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
Related terms
- thema
- thematic
- theme music
- theme park
- theme song
- theme tune
Translations
subject of a talk or an artistic piece
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recurring idea
music: main melody of a piece of music
computing: collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc.
grammar: stem of a word
linguistics: thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb
linguistics: theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory
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linguistics: topic, what is generally being talked about
regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire
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Verb
theme (third-person singular simple present themes, present participle theming, simple past and past participle themed)
- (transitive) To give a theme to.
- We themed the birthday party around superheroes.
- (computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).
Middle English
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