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subject matters

subject matters is the plural of subject matter.

Meaning of subject matter

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.
    • The appearance of the book is as unattractive as its subject-matter. It has been reproduced from typescript by photolithography, as many theses are in these days of expensive printing; but the copy photographed has been carelessly typed on a machine with a defective spacing-mechanism and a number...1965, A. J. Bliss, “Die Reception des a-nasalis romanischer Lehnwörter im Mittelenglischen und seine Weiterentwicklung in Standard u. Dialekten by Ursula Schmidt. Heidelberg, 1963. xliii + 313 pp.”...

Questions about subject matters

What is subject matters the plural of?
Subject matters is the plural of subject matter.

Words near subject matters in the dictionary

  1. subject heading
  2. subject headings
  3. subject indexing
  4. subject matter
  5. subject matter jurisdiction
  6. subject matters
  7. subject of labor
  8. subject pronoun
  9. subject pronouns
  10. subject-control
  11. subject-matter

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