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Definition of Subject matter
1. Noun. What a communication that is about something is about.
Generic synonyms: Communication
Specialized synonyms: Body, Corker, Reminder, Petition, Postulation, Request, Memorial, Latent Content, Subject, Theme, Topic, Aside, Digression, Divagation, Excursus, Parenthesis, Import, Meaning, Significance, Signification, Bunk, Hokum, Meaninglessness, Nonsense, Nonsensicality, Drivel, Garbage, Acknowledgement, Acknowledgment, Refusal, Info, Information, Counsel, Counseling, Counselling, Direction, Guidance, Commitment, Dedication, Approval, Commendation, Disapproval, Respects, Discourtesy, Disrespect, Insertion, Interpolation, Statement, Statement, Humor, Humour, Wit, Witticism, Wittiness, Opinion, View, Direction, Instruction, Proposal, Offer, Offering, Entry, Submission, Narration, Narrative, Story, Tale, Packaging, Promotion, Promotional Material, Publicity, Sensationalism, Shocker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subject Matter
Literary usage of Subject matter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1916)
"The Unity of subject matter and Method. — The trinity of school topics is subject
matter, methods, and administration or government. ..."
2. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1916)
"The Unity of subject matter and Method. — The trinity of school topics is subject
matter, methods, and administration or government. ..."
3. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"Being is the end or subject-matter of knowledge, and knowledge is the ... Yes.
v And is the subject-matter of opinion the same as the subject- matter of ..."
4. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1910)
"In selecting subject matter we may take as our standard that it must prove most
satisfactory and profitable to the girl, and may understand by the term ..."
5. Principles of the English Law of Contract by William Reynell Anson (1879)
"Mistake as to the subject-matter of a contract will only avoid it in three cases.
(a) Mistake as to the existence of the subject-matter. ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Instituted by a state as the "entire party" plaintiff on the record—in virtue of
such direct legal or equitable interest in the subject-matter as, ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Other codes were compiled, either following the example of the Mishnah, and
arranging the text according to subject matter, or taking the Pentateuch as text ..."
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