topic
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ɪk 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.
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| —n | |
| 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 |
| [C16: from Latin topica translating Greek ta topika, literally: matters relating to commonplaces, title of a treatise by Aristotle, from topoi, pl of topos place, commonplace] | |
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Word Origin & History
topic
1634, "argument suitable for debate," singular form of "Topics" (1568), the name of a work by Aristotle on logical and rhetorical generalities, from L. Topica, from Gk. Ta Topika, lit. "matters concerning topoi," from topoi "commonplaces," neut. pl. of topikos "commonplace, of a place," from topos "place."
The meaning "matter treated in speech or writing, subject, theme" is first recorded 1720. Topical "of or pertaining to topics of the day" is recorded from 1873.
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Example sentences
The subject swings, inevitably, to the dreaded topic: doping.
Their value rather lies in this, that they provide a topic for literature.
It has decided to put the topic squarely on the campaign agenda.
Wade was the hot legal topic, but had formed and expressed no opinion on it at all.
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