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| a mark (?) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ?, ?, ?, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic |
| a structural representation of a sentence in the form of an inverted tree, with each node of the tree labeled according to the phrasal constituent it represents |
| rheme (riːm) | |
| —n | |
| linguistics Compare theme the constituent of a sentence that adds most new information, in addition to what has already been said in the discourse. The rheme is usually, but not always, associated with the subject | |
| [C20: from Greek rhēma that which is said] | |
| Main Entry: | rheme |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See rhema |