Topic
noun
1.
a subject of conversation or discussion:
to provide a topic for discussion.
2.
the subject or theme of a discourse or of one of its parts.
3.
Rhetoric, Logic. a general field of considerations from which arguments can be drawn.
4.
Also called theme. Linguistics. the part of a sentence that announces the item about which the rest of the sentence communicates information, often signaled by initial position in the sentence or by a grammatical marker.
Compare comment (def 7).
noun
1.
a subject or theme of a speech, essay, book, etc
2.
a subject of conversation; item of discussion
3.
(in rhetoric, logic, etc) a category or class of arguments or ideas which may be drawn on to furnish proofs
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