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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word theme:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. theme: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. theme: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. theme: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. theme: Collins English Dictionary
  5. theme: Vocabulary.com
  6. Theme, theme: Wordnik
  7. theme: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. theme: Wiktionary
  9. theme: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. theme: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. theme: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. theme: Dictionary.com
  13. theme: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. theme: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Theme (It's Party Time), The Theme, Theme (Byzantine administrative unit), Theme (Byzantine district), Theme (album), Theme (arts), Theme (computing), Theme (country subdivision), Theme (disambiguation), Theme (linguistics), Theme (literary), Theme (literature), Theme (magazine), Theme (music), Theme (narrative), Theme (visual arts), Theme: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Theme: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. theme: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. theme: Rhymezone
  19. theme: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. theme: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. theme: Free Dictionary
  22. theme: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. theme: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. theme: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. theme: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  7. Theme: Lexicon of Linguistics
  8. THEME: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. theme: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. theme: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. theme: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THEME: Acronym Finder
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Theme: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See themed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
noun:  A recurring idea; a motif.
noun:  A concept with multiple instantiations.
noun:  Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
noun:  (dated) An essay written for school.
noun:  (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
noun:  (film, television, video games) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
noun:  (grammar) The stem of a word.
noun:  (linguistics) Thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
noun:  (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
noun:  (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about.
noun:  A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
verb:  (transitive) To give a theme to.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).

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