- a subject of conversation or discussion: to provide a topic for discussion.
- the subject or theme of a discourse or of one of its parts.
- a general field of considerations from which arguments can be drawn.
- 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.
- a subject or theme of a speech, essay, book, etc
- a subject of conversation; item of discussion
- (in rhetoric, logic, etc) a category or class of arguments or ideas which may be drawn on to furnish proofs
