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the subject matter of a conversation or discussion;
"he didn't want to discuss that subject"
"it was a very sensitive topic"
"his letters were always on the theme of love"
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a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work;
"it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"
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(music) melodic subject of a musical composition;
"the theme is announced in the first measures"
"the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
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an essay (especially one written as an assignment);
"he got an A on his composition"
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(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
"thematic vowels are part of the stem"