"subject matter" meaning in English

See subject matter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: subject matters [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} subject matter (countable and uncountable, plural subject matters)
  1. The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: subject-matter Translations (object of thought): الموضوع، مادة البحث (Arabic), նյութ (nyutʻ) (Armenian), 主題 (Chinese Mandarin), 主题 (zhǔtí) (Chinese Mandarin), 題材 (Chinese Mandarin), 题材 (tícái) (Chinese Mandarin), asiasisältö (english: matter or thought presented for consideration) (Finnish), aihepiiri (note: object of thought or study) (Finnish), sujet [masculine] (French), განხილვის საგანი (ganxilvis sagani) (Georgian), тақырыптама (taqyryptama) (Kazakh), kiko (Maori), тема́тика (temátika) [feminine] (Russian), tema [masculine] (Spanish), ämne [neuter] (Swedish), אינהאַלט (inhalt) [masculine] (Yiddish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for subject matter meaning in English (2.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "subject matters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "subject matter (countable and uncountable, plural subject matters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Armenian terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study."
      ],
      "id": "en-subject_matter-en-noun-EdcHVWKh",
      "links": [
        [
          "thought",
          "thought"
        ],
        [
          "object",
          "object"
        ],
        [
          "study",
          "study"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "subject-matter"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "word": "الموضوع، مادة البحث"
        },
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "nyutʻ",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "word": "նյութ"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "word": "主題"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhǔtí",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "word": "主题"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "word": "題材"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tícái",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "word": "题材"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "english": "matter or thought presented for consideration",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "word": "asiasisältö"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "note": "object of thought or study",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "word": "aihepiiri"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sujet"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ganxilvis sagani",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "word": "განხილვის საგანი"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "taqyryptama",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "word": "тақырыптама"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "word": "kiko"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "temátika",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "тема́тика"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tema"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ämne"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "inhalt",
          "sense": "object of thought",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "אינהאַלט"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "subject matter"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "subject matters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "subject matter (countable and uncountable, plural subject matters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Armenian terms with redundant script codes",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thought",
          "thought"
        ],
        [
          "object",
          "object"
        ],
        [
          "study",
          "study"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "subject-matter"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "word": "الموضوع، مادة البحث"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "nyutʻ",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "word": "նյութ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "word": "主題"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhǔtí",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "word": "主题"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "word": "題材"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tícái",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "word": "题材"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "matter or thought presented for consideration",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "word": "asiasisältö"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "object of thought or study",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "word": "aihepiiri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sujet"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ganxilvis sagani",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "word": "განხილვის საგანი"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "taqyryptama",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "word": "тақырыптама"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "word": "kiko"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "temátika",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тема́тика"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tema"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ämne"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "inhalt",
      "sense": "object of thought",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "אינהאַלט"
    }
  ],
  "word": "subject matter"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.