theme

Topic: FILM

Date:	1200-1300
Language:	Latin
Origin:	thema, from Greek, 'something laid down, theme', from tithenai 'to put'

theme
noun

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[countable]

the main subject or idea in a piece of writing, speech, film etc:

The book's theme is the conflict between love and duty.

main/central/major etc theme

Campbell has made health care a central theme in his campaign.

Nature is a recurrent theme (=a theme that appears repeatedly) in Frost's poetry.

Most of Kurt's other pictures were variations on the same theme.

2APM

music or a song that is often played during a film or musical play, or at the beginning and end of a television or radio programme:

the theme song from 'The Brady Bunch'

3APM

a short simple tune that is repeated and developed in a piece of music:

Freia's theme in Wagner's opera

a particular style:

Her bedroom is decorated in a Victorian theme.

American EnglishSES old-fashioned a short piece of writing on a particular subject that you do for school [= essay]

theme on

Your homework is to write a two-page theme on pollution.

Definition of theme from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English within
the topic FILM