Definition for the word theme

тема, предмет, позывные, сочинение на заданную тему, основа

существительное ↓

- тема; предмет (разговора, рассуждения, сочинения)

- основная мысль; характерная черта
- школ. сочинение на заданную тему

to write a (school) theme — написать (школьное) сочинение

- муз. тема

second theme — побочная тема
variations on a theme — вариации на какую-л. тему
theme song — а) повторяющаяся мелодия; лейтмотив; б) = 7
to vary the theme — варьировать тему

- грам. основа
- лингв. тема
- радио позывные (тж. theme song)
- ист. провинция Византийской империи
- положение звёзд в момент рождения человека (в астрологии)

Мои примеры

Словосочетания

plans to plunk a theme park on the island — планы «забабахать» на острове тематический парк отдыха с аттракционами
unimaginative development of a musical theme — незамысловатое развитие музыкальной темы
the play’s dateless theme — всегда современная тема пьесы
to handle a certain theme ironically — представлять конкретную тему в ироническом свете
to keep harping on the same old theme — продолжать говорить на ту же самую тему
basic / dominant theme — главная тема
contemporary theme — современная тема
topical theme — актуальная тема
underlying theme — подтекст
recurring theme — повторяющаяся тема
theme park — тематический парк
subsidiary theme — побочная тема

Примеры с переводом

A common theme connects the stories.

Эти рассказы связаны общей темой.

She wove the story around a specific theme.

Её рассказ крутился вокруг одной конкретной темы.

Her bedroom is decorated in a Victorian theme.

Её спальня оформлена в викторианском стиле.

Desire is a common theme in music and literature.

Страсть является общей темой для музыки и литературы.

Love is a recurring theme in the book.

Тема любви постоянно звучит в этой книге.

The quest for power is the underlying theme of the film.

Стремление к власти является основной темой фильма.

Freia’s theme in Wagner’s opera

Тема Фреи в опере Вагнера

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Примеры, ожидающие перевода

They played the theme from the movie “Rocky.”

This same theme is picked up in his later works.

…an ice cream parlor with an old-timey theme…

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Формы слова

noun
ед. ч.(singular): theme
мн. ч.(plural): themes

Источник

: a subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation

guilt and punishment is the theme of the story

: a specific and distinctive quality, characteristic, or concern

the campaign has lacked a theme

: a melodic subject of a musical composition or movement

Synonyms

Example Sentences

If one theme unites his scholarship it is that the Old South cannot be viewed as a monolith.

—Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review, 8 Apr. 2007

One reiterated theme of his book is that the electoral process can be the most dangerous of delusions, tending to confer a spurious legitimacy on those most willing to corrupt it.

—Hilary Mantel, New York Review, 21 Sept. 2006

The Eve of biblical legend was a temptress, thus initiating a lamentable theme in the history of sexism.

—Stephen Jay Gould, Discover, July 1992

The quest for power is the underlying theme of the film.

A constant theme in his novels is religion.

The playwright skillfully brings together various themes.

The album focuses on themes of love and loss.

Adventures are popular themes in children’s books.

The growing deficit was a dominant theme in the election.

The party had a Hawaiian luau theme.

They played the theme from the movie “Rocky.”

Recent Examples on the Web

The Avondale subdivision was named for Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare’s hometown, and the surrounding streets held to the same theme.

—Katharine Jose, Chron, 26 Mar. 2023

Three of the Gadbois teams made the top five after the rhythm dance, set this season to a Latin theme.

—Joyce Rubin, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2023

The stage shows accompanying the album releases grew increasingly elaborate, culminating in the P-Funk Earth Tour, which began in 1976, continued for several years and featured an outer-space theme, including an onstage spaceship.

—Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023

Wouldn’t this be cool for a show that is a blend of Broadway and television to have this climax that is a trope from Broadway — the finale — and a trope from television — the main title theme — all wrapped into one?

—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023

But another grand theme slowly emerges in these conversations: the tension between the superficial civilization of humankind and our innate barbarism.

—Michael O’sullivan, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023

The conflation of data privacy concerns—that is, the surveillant threat posed by Beijing—and the ways in which TikTok fails its underaged users was a theme throughout the hearing, with both topics puzzlingly discussed interchangeably.

—WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023

Each night, there’ll be a different musical theme for the stage’s closing DJ.

—Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023

Each section has a specific theme, like an 1960s atomic age kitchen, a ’70s disco vibe den for Ken, and an ’80s glam bedroom.

—Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Middle English teme, theme, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin thema, from Greek, literally, something laid down, from tithenai to place — more at do

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler

The first known use of theme was
in the 14th century

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Источник

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /θiːm/
Hyphenation: theme
Rhymes: -iːm (for all senses)
Rhymes: -iːmi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

Noun[edit]

theme (plural themes)

A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
  
  «Had not you once a beautiful daughter, named Mary?» said the stranger.
  «It is a heartrending question, man,» said Andrew; «but certes, I had once a beloved daughter named Mary.»
  «What became of her?» asked the stranger.
  Andrew shook his head, turned round, and began to move away; it was a theme that his heart could not brook.
A recurring idea; a motif.
1. A concept with multiple instantiations.
  
  variations on the theme of entrepreneurial resourcefulness
2. Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
  
  switch to a dark theme to conserve battery power
  
  Synonym: colorway
(dated) An essay written for school.
- 1917, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
  
  Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.
- 1979, Tri-Quarterly (issues 46-47, page 273)
  
  […] his themes and exercises were in constant demand for what we called cogging and American students rather grandly called plagiarization.
(music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
(film, television) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
(grammar) The stem of a word.
(linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
(linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
(linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.

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thema
thematic
theme music
theme park
theme song
theme tune

Translations[edit]

subject of a talk or an artistic piece

Albanian: temë (sq) f
Arabic: مَوْضُوع‎ (ar) m (mawḍūʕ)
Armenian: թեմա (hy) (tʿema)
Azerbaijani: mövzu (az), tema (az)
Belarusian: тэ́ма f (téma)
Bengali: বিষয় (bn) (biśoẏ)
Bulgarian: те́ма (bg) f (téma)
Burmese: အကြောင်း (my) (a.kraung:)
Catalan: tema (ca) m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 主題／主题 (zyu² tai⁴)

Mandarin: 主題／主题 (zh) (zhǔtí), 話題／话题 (zh) (huàtí)
Czech: téma (cs) n
Danish: tema n
Dutch: thema (nl) n
Estonian: teema (et)
Finnish: aihe (fi)
French: thème (fr) m
Galician: tema (gl) m
Georgian: თემა (tema)
German: Thema (de) n
Greek: θέμα (el) (théma)

Ancient: θέμα n (théma)
Hebrew: נוֹשֵׂא‎ (he) m (nosé)
Hindi: विषय (hi) m (viṣay), प्रसंग (hi) m (prasaṅg)
Hungarian: téma (hu), tárgy (hu)
Icelandic: þema n, efni (is) n
Ido: temo (io)
Indonesian: tema (id)
Irish: téama m, ábhar (ga) m
Japanese: 主題 (ja) (しゅだい, shudai), テーマ (ja) (tēma), 話題 (ja) (わだい, wadai)
Kazakh: тақырып (kk) (taqyryp), тема (tema)
Khmer: អង្គសេចក្តី (ʼɑng sackdəy), សាច់រឿង (sac rɨəng), អត្ថរស (km) (ʼatthaʼrŭəh)
Korean: 주제(主題) (ko) (juje), 테마 (tema), 쩨마 (ko) (jjema) (North Korea), 화제(話題) (ko) (hwaje)
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: mewzû (ku)
Kyrgyz: тема (ky) (tema)
Lao: ກະທູ້ (lo) (ka thū)
Latvian: temats m
Lithuanian: tema (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Thema
Macedonian: тема f (tema)
Malay: tema (ms)
Maori: marau, kaupapa, tāhuhu
Mongolian:

Cyrillic: сэдэв (mn) (sedev)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: tema (no) n
Old English: andtimber n
Ottoman Turkish: موضوع‎ (mevzu)
Pashto: موضوع‎ (ps) f (mawzo’)
Persian: موضوع‎ (mowzu’), تم‎ (fa) (tem)
Polish: temat (pl) m
Portuguese: tema (pt) m
Romanian: temă (ro)
Romansch: tema m
Russian: те́ма (ru) f (téma)
Sanskrit: विषय (sa) m (viṣaya)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: те́ма f

Roman: téma (sh) f
Slovak: téma n
Slovene: tema (sl) f
Spanish: tema (es) m
Swedish: tema (sv) n
Tagalog: tema (tl)
Tajik: мавзӯъ (mavzüʾ), тема (tema)
Thai: กระทู้ (th) (grà-túu)
Turkish: ana konu (tr), tema (tr)
Turkmen: tema, mowzuk
Ukrainian: те́ма (uk) f (téma)
Uyghur: ماۋزۇ‎ (mawzu)
Uzbek: mavzu (uz), tema (uz)
Vietnamese: chủ đề (vi) (主題)
Yiddish: טעמע‎ (yi) f (teme)

recurring idea

Finnish: teema (fi), aihe (fi)
German: Motiv (de) n
Hungarian: motívum (hu)
Japanese: 主題 (ja) (しゅだい, shudai)
Maori: tāhuhu, tāhū
Portuguese: tema (pt) m
Spanish: tema (es) m

music: main melody of a piece of music

Bulgarian: тема (bg) f (tema)
Catalan: tema (ca) m
Finnish: teema (fi)
German: Thema (de) n
Greek: θέμα (el) (théma)
Hungarian: téma (hu), motívum (hu)
Icelandic: stef n, tema n, þema n
Ido: temato (io)
Irish: téama m
Japanese: 主題曲 (しゅだいきょく, shudaikyoku), テーマ曲 (tēma kyoku)
Maori: tāhuhu, tāhū
Portuguese: tema (pt) m
Spanish: tema (es) m

linguistics: thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb

linguistics: theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory

Icelandic: þema n

Verb[edit]

theme (third-person singular simple present themes, present participle theming, simple past and past participle themed)

(transitive) To give a theme to.

We themed the birthday party around superheroes.
(computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).

References[edit]

Theme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams[edit]

Hemet

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

theme (plural themes)

Alternative form of teme (“topic”)

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

theme

Alternative spelling of þeme (“them”)

Источник

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theme

1) те́ма, предме́т (разговора, сочинения)

3)

амер.

сочине́ние на за́данную те́му

Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > theme
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theme

Персональный Сократ > theme
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theme

1. n тема; предмет

2. n основная мысль; характерная черта

3. n школ. сочинение на заданную тему

4. n грам. основа

5. n радио позывные

6. n ист. провинция Византийской империи

7. n положение звёзд в момент рождения человека

Синонимический ряд:

1. essay (noun) article; composition; dissertation; essay; paper; treatise

2. melody (noun) leitmotif; melody; motif; song; strain

3. topic (noun) argument; focus; head; ideas; issue; matter; moral; motive; point; proposition; subject; subject matter; text; thesis; topic

English-Russian base dictionary > theme
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theme

[θi:m]

1. тема; предмет ()

2. основная мысль; характерная черта

3.

сочинение на заданную тему

theme song — а) повторяющаяся мелодия; лейтмотив; б) = 7

7.

позывные (

theme song)

8.

провинция Византийской империи

9. положение звёзд в момент рождения человека ()

НБАРС > theme
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theme

тема
имя существительное:

Англо-русский синонимический словарь > theme
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theme

English-Russian big medical dictionary > theme
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Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > theme
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theme

[θiːm]

сущ.

1) тема, предмет, вопрос

basic / dominant theme — главная тема

Syn:

2)

а) основная мысль; лейтмотив

Syn:

3)

амер.

сочинение на заданную тему

Syn:

5)

; = theme song позывные

Англо-русский современный словарь > theme
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THEME

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > THEME
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theme

[θiːm]

тема, предмет, вопрос

основная мысль; лейтмотив

тема

основа

тема

Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > theme
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theme

б) раздел; рубрика

в) исход, данное, известное

г) главная идея; лейтмотив

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English-Russian electronics dictionary > theme
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theme

n

1) тема, предмет

2) основная мысль; характерная черта

English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > theme
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The Americanisms. English-Russian dictionary. > theme
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Англо-русский словарь по рекламе > theme
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theme

тема;

1) theme song — позывные

a) His works often draw on themes from Silesian and Polish folk music — В его сочинениях часто используются мелодии, заимствованные из силезской и польской народной музыки

English-Russian dictionary of musical terminology > theme
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theme

Англо-русский технический словарь > theme
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theme

1. тема, предмет;

2. основная мысль; характерная черта;

3. основная литературно-художественная проблема;

4. музыкальное настроение.

* * *

сущ.

1) тема, предмет;

2) основная мысль; характерная черта;

3) основная литературно-художественная проблема;

4) музыкальное настроение.

Англо-русский словарь по социологии > theme
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theme

noun

1) тема, предмет (разговора, сочинения)

2)

amer.

сочинение на заданную тему

5) radio позывные

Syn:

composition

* * *

* * *

* * *

[ θɪːm]
тема, предмет, сочинение на заданную тему, основа, позывные

* * *

предмет

тема

* * *

1) тема, предмет, вопрос (обсуждения, лекции и т.п.)
2) а) основная мысль; лейтмотив
б) муз. тема
3) амер. сочинение на заданную тему

Новый англо-русский словарь > theme
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theme

2. тема школьного сочинения/реферата

США. Лингвострановедческий англо-русский словарь > theme

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thème — [ tɛm ] n. m. • 1538, surtout didact. jusqu au XIXe; tesme 1265; lat. thema, mot gr., littéralt « ce qui est posé » 1 ♦ Sujet, idée, proposition qu on développe (dans un discours, un ouvrage didactique ou littéraire). ⇒ fond, idée, 3. sujet.… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Theme — may refer to:The arts* Theme (music), the initial or principal melody in a musical piece * Theme (literature), the unifying subject or idea of a story * Theme (arts), the unifying subject or idea of a visual work * Theme music, signature music… … Wikipedia
Theme — Thème Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom … Wikipédia en Français
Théme — Thème Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom … Wikipédia en Français
theme — W2S2 [θi:m] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(subject)¦ 2 theme music/song/tune 3¦(repeated tune)¦ 4¦(style)¦ 5¦(piece of writing)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1200 1300; : Latin; Origin: thema, from Greek, something laid down, theme , from tithenai … Dictionary of contemporary English
theme — THEME. s. m. Texte tiré de l Escriture, qu un Predicateur prend pour sujet de son sermon, & par lequel il le commence. Il a pris un beau theme. il n a pas bien choisi, bien suivi son theme. c est là son theme. Theme, se dit aussi, De ce qu on… … Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
theme — [ θim ] noun count *** 1. ) the main subject of something such as a book, speech, art exhibit, or discussion: theme of: Love and honor are the main themes of the book. a recurrent/recurring theme (=one that occurs several times): Musical… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Theme — Theme, n. [OE. teme, OF. teme, F. th[ e]me, L. thema, Gr. ?, fr. ? to set, place. See {Do}, and cf. {Thesis}.] 1. A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text. [1913 Webster] My theme is… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
theme — [thēm] n. [ME < OFr & L: OFr teme < L thema < Gr, what is laid down < base of tithenai, to put, place: see DO1] 1. a) a topic or subject, as of a lecture, sermon, essay, etc. b) a recurring, unifying subject or idea; motif, often one… … English World dictionary
theme — (n.) c.1300, from O.Fr. tesme (13c., with silent s ), from L. thema a subject, thesis, from Gk. thema a proposition, subject, deposit, lit. something set down, from root of tithenai put down, place, from PIE root *dhe to put, to do (see… … Etymology dictionary
thème — THÈME: Au collège, prouve l application, comme la version prouve l intelligence. Mais dans le monde il faut rire des forts en thème … Dictionnaire des idées reçues

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Look up theme in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Theme or themes may refer to:

Theme (arts), the unifying subject or idea of the type of visual work
Theme (Byzantine district), an administrative district in the Byzantine Empire governed by a Strategos
Theme (computing), a custom graphical appearance for certain software.
Theme (linguistics), topic
Theme (narrative)
Theme Building, a landmark building in the Los Angeles International Airport
Theme music a piece often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game, or film, and usually played during the intro, opening credits, or ending credits
Theme vowel or thematic vowel, a vowel placed before the word ending in certain Proto-Indo-European words
Subject (music), sometimes called theme, a musical idea, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based

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Theme (album), by Leslie West
Theme (magazine)
The Theme, a 1979 Soviet film
«Theme,» by Flying Lotus, from the album You’re Dead!
«The Theme (It’s Party Time),» a 1997 song by Tracey Lee
Themes (Clannad album), 1992
Themes (Vangelis album), 1989
Themes (Silent Stream of Godless Elegy album), 2000

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