See theme on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "theme",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "themes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "For Mr Giuliani, crime is a main campaign theme."
},
{
"text": "The topic did not seem related to the main themes of his studies."
},
{
"text": "The American novel focusses on themes of male companionship and confrontation with death."
},
{
"text": "They became a household name in 1982 with the theme music for the hit TV series, \"Harry's Game\"."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A theme is a general idea that runs through a conversation, story, group of images, piece of music, etc."
],
"id": "simple-theme-en-noun-HUpnBJqi",
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/θiːm/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-theme.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "theme"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "theme",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "themes",
"tags": [
"third-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "themed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "themed",
"tags": [
"past",
"participle"
]
},
{
"form": "theming",
"tags": [
"present",
"participle"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "them",
"2": "e"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"If you theme something, you give it a theme."
],
"id": "simple-theme-en-verb-AY~ipgx9",
"raw_tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/θiːm/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-theme.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "theme"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "theme",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "themes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Countable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "For Mr Giuliani, crime is a main campaign theme."
},
{
"text": "The topic did not seem related to the main themes of his studies."
},
{
"text": "The American novel focusses on themes of male companionship and confrontation with death."
},
{
"text": "They became a household name in 1982 with the theme music for the hit TV series, \"Harry's Game\"."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A theme is a general idea that runs through a conversation, story, group of images, piece of music, etc."
],
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/θiːm/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-theme.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "theme"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "theme",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "themes",
"tags": [
"third-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "themed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "themed",
"tags": [
"past",
"participle"
]
},
{
"form": "theming",
"tags": [
"present",
"participle"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "them",
"2": "e"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"If you theme something, you give it a theme."
],
"raw_tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/θiːm/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-theme.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "theme"
}
Download raw JSONL data for theme meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-03 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (7dd5d20 and 5a03470). 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.