subject matter as a noun: - 1
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subject matter
noun
1 subject matter
What a communication that is about something is about.
synonyms: content, message, substance.
Roget 454:
subject of thought,
material for thought;
food for the mind,
mental pabulum.
subject,
subject matter;
matter,
theme,
noemata [Gr.],
topic,
what it is about,
thesis,
text,
business,
affair,
matter in hand,
argument;
motion,
resolution;
head,
chapter;
case,
point;
proposition,
theorem;
field of inquiry;
moot point,
problem
etc.
(question)
461.
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Roget 516:
meaning;
signification,
significance;
sense,
expression;
import,
purport;
force;
drift,
tenor,
spirit,
bearing,
coloring;
scope.
[important part of the meaning]
substance;
gist,
essence,
marrow,
spirit
etc.
5.
matter;
subject,
subject matter;
argument,
text,
sum and substance.
general meaning,
broad meaning,
substantial meaning,
colloquial meaning,
literal meaning,
plain meaning,
simple meaning,
natural meaning,
unstrained meaning,
true meaning,
etc.
(exact)
494
honest meaning,
etc.
543
prima facie meaning [Lat.];
etc.
(manifest)
525.
letter of the law.
literally;
after acceptation.
synonym;
implication,
allusion
etc.
(latency)
526;
suggestion
etc.
(information)
527;
figure of speech
etc.
521;
acceptation
etc.
(interpretation)
522.
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Polish: tematyka
Moby thesaurus: argument, basis, burden, case, chapter, concern, essence, focus of attention, focus of interest, gist, head, heading, issue, living issue, main point, matter, matter in hand, meat, motif, motive, point, point at issue, point in question, problem, question, rubric, subject, subject of thought, substance, text, theme, topic ... show more.
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