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topic
noun
a
subject
that
people
talk
,
write
,
or
think
about
•
For
her
school
report
,
Ava
chose
space
travel
as
her
topic
.
For
her
school
report
,
Ava
chose
space
travel
as
her
topic
.
•
During
dinner
,
politics
was
the
only
topic
everyone
avoided
.
During
dinner
,
politics
was
the
only
topic
everyone
avoided
.
From
Latin
“
topica
” (
matters
for
discussion
)
via
Medieval
Latin
“
topica
”
and
late
16th-century
English
.
noun
(
linguistics
)
the
part
of
a
sentence
that
tells
what
the
rest
of
the
sentence
is
about
•
In
the
sentence
'As
for
the
weather
,
it
looks
sunny
,
'
'the
weather'
is
the
topic
.
In
the
sentence
'As
for
the
weather
,
it
looks
sunny
,
'
'the
weather'
is
the
topic
.
•
Languages
like
Japanese
often
place
the
topic
at
the
beginning
followed
by
a
particle
.
Languages
like
Japanese
often
place
the
topic
at
the
beginning
followed
by
a
particle
.
Adopted
in
modern
linguistics
from
earlier
rhetorical
sense
,
ultimately
from
Greek
“
topos
”
meaning
‘
place
’.
noun
(
archaic
,
medicine
)
a
medicine
or
ointment
applied
directly
to
a
part
of
the
body
•
The
apothecary
prepared
a
soothing
topic
for
the
soldier's
wound
.
The
apothecary
prepared
a
soothing
topic
for
the
soldier's
wound
.
•
Physicians
once
prescribed
mustard
as
a
stimulating
topic
.
Physicians
once
prescribed
mustard
as
a
stimulating
topic
.
From
Medieval
Latin
“
topica
medicina
”
meaning
‘
local
remedy
’.