Definition of Theme

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Definition of Theme

Theme

A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

Discourse on a certain subject.

A composition or essay required of a pupil.

A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem.

That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument.

The leading subject of a composition or a movement.

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Theme Quotations

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Lord Byron

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Woodrow Wilson

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
Mary Kay Ash

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Dorothea Lange

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
Freddie Mercury

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
David Bowie

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Herman Melville

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the Pink Panther theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
Jack Black

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.
Keanu Reeves

Theme Translations

theme in Afrikaans is onderwerp
theme in Dutch is onderwerp, stof, thema, apropos
theme in Finnish is aihe
theme in German is Thema
theme in Italian is oggetti, tema
theme in Latin is thema, lemma, thema thematis
theme in Portuguese is tema
theme in Spanish is tema
theme in Swedish is tema

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