Noun: theme
| Singular | theme |
| Plural | themes |
Sample Sentences
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"Had not you once a beautiful daughter, named Mary?" said the stranger.
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"It is a heartrending question, man," said Andrew; "but certes, I had once a beloved daughter named Mary."
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"What became of her?" asked the stranger.
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Andrew shook his head, turned round, and began to move away; it was a theme that his heart could not brook. [1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:]
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variations on the theme of entrepreneurial resourcefulness
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switch to a dark theme to conserve battery power
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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:]
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[…] his themes and exercises were in constant demand for what we called cogging and American students rather grandly called plagiarization. [1979, Tri-Quarterly, numbers 46-47, page 273:]
Nouns inflected like theme
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema. See: Middle English Nouns '
teme', French Nouns '
thème', Latin Nouns '
thema', Ancient Greek Nouns '
θέμα', English Nouns '
do'.
Verbs referencing "theme"
Russian Nouns
дело.