THEME


Meaning of THEME in English

n.1 a subject or topic on which a person speaks, writes, or thinks.

2 Mus. a prominent or frequently recurring melody or group of notes in a composition.

3 US a school exercise, esp. an essay, on a given subject.

4 Gram. the stem of a noun or verb; the part to which inflections are added, esp. composed of the root and an added vowel.

5 hist. any of the 29 provinces in the Byzantine empire.

Phrases and idioms:

theme park an amusement park organized round a unifying idea. theme song (or tune)

1. a recurrent melody in a musical play or film.

2 a signature tune.

Etymology: ME teme ult. f. Gk thema -matos f. tithemi set, place

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.