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==Pronunciation==
 
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::<center>For '''''Topical Studies''''' in the [[Nordan Corpora]], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Topics follow this link].</center>
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::<center>For '''''Topical Studies''''' in the [[Nordan Corpora]], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Topics '''''follow this link'''''].</center>
 
==Noun==
 
==Noun==
 
1. a subject of [[dialogue|conversation]] or discussion: to provide a topic for discussion.
 
1. a subject of [[dialogue|conversation]] or discussion: to provide a topic for discussion.

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Pronunciation

top-ik

For Topical Studies in the Nordan Corpora, follow this link.

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.

4. Also called theme. Linguistics. 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.

Origin

1560–70; < L topica (pl.) < Gk (tà) topiká name of work by Aristotle (lit., (things) pertaining to commonplaces), equiv. to tóp(os) commonplace + -ika, neut. pl. of -ikos -ic; see topo-

Synonyms

2. thesis, subject matter. See subject.