theme -
n. 1 a subject or topic on which a person speaks, writes, or thinks.
2 Mus. a prominent or frequently recurring melody or
group of notes in a composition.
3 US a school exercise, esp. an essay, on a
given subject.
4 Gram. the stem of a noun or verb; the part to which inflections are added, esp. composed of the root and an added vowel.
5 hist. any of the 29 provinces in the Byzantine empire.
theme park an amusement park organized round a unifying idea. theme song (or tune)
1 a recurrent melody in a musical play or film.
2 a signature tune. [ME teme ult. f. Gk thema -matos f. tithemi set, place]
