topic

topic
/top"ik/, n.
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. Rhet., Logic. a general field of considerations from which arguments can be drawn.
4. Also called theme. Ling. 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. Cf. comment (def. 6).
[1560-70; < L topica (pl.) < Gk () topiká name of work by Aristotle (lit., (things) pertaining to commonplaces), equiv. to tóp(os) commonplace + -ika, neut. pl. of -ikos -IC; see TOPO-]
Syn. 2. thesis, subject matter. See subject.

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