All 4 Uses of
theme
in
Funny in Farsi
- If you were to design a theme park around the crashed drug plane, what would you call it?
p. 177.4 *theme park = an amusement park with one or more basic underlying ideas -- such as the "Magic Kingdom" of Disneyworld
- My amoo Muhammad recently turned eighty, an event that the family celebrated with a Hawaiian-themed birthday party.†
p. 102.2
- Even the ads followed the same theme.†
p. 135.1
- There would be no theme song, just the sound of the Metro doors opening and closing and opening and closing.†
p. 140.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(theme as in: theme of the novel) a basic idea that underlies what is being said or done -- especially in a literary or artistic work
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(2)
(theme as in: musical theme) the initial or primary melody of a musical composition
or
(as in "theme song") music that is most repeated in a film, television series, or other theatrical production -
(3)
(theme as in: wrote a 2-page theme on my summer) an essay written by a student
(This sense of theme is much rarer in recent decades than in the past.)