topic
//ˈtɒpɪk//
Forms
- Plural
- topics
Definitions
1.topical
1.A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
- A society where a topic cannot be discussed, does not have free speech.
- The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy.
2.A discussion thread.
- If after the update you still run into bugs or odd behavior, please report them in the appropriate Steam Community thread or the relevant Discord channel/topic.
3.A component similar to a message queue which supports multiple subscribers.
4.A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
- In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1610
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Latin topica
From Ancient Greek τοπικός (topikós, “pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”)
From τόπος (tópos, “a place”).