topic
Syllables: top·icUK/ˈtɒpɪk//ˈtɑpɪk/
topic adjective: topical.
Adjective
topic
Noun
topic (plural topics)
- A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
- A society where a topic cannot be discussed, does not have free speech.
- stick to the topic
- A discussion thread.
- If after the update you still run into bugs or odd behavior, please report them in the appropriate Steam Community thread or the relevant Discord channel/topic.2026 February 11, “Hotfix #11”, in Pathologic 3 Events, Ice-Pick Lodge, via Steam Community, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2026
- A component similar to a message queue which supports multiple subscribers.
- A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
- In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.2012, Esti Sheinberg, Music Semiotics, page 9
- An argument or reason.
- contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion
- An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
- Amongst topics or outward medicines none are more precious than baths.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC
topic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
topic in Hindi
- subject; theme
- प्रसंग prasaṅg, विषय viṣay
topic in Tamil
- தலைப்பு
topic in Urdu
- subject; theme
- مَوضُوع mauzū'
topic in Bengali
- subject; theme
- প্রসঙ্গ prośoṅgo, বিষয় biśoẏ
More languagesFewer languages
- topic in Telugu
- ప్రసక్తి prasakti
- topic in Malayalam
- വിഷയം viṣayaṁ
- topic in Kannada
- ಅಧಿಕಾರ adhikāra
- topic in Punjabi
- گل gall
- topic in Gujarati
- વિષય viṣya
- topic in Sanskrit
- विषय viṣaya
- topic in Pashto
- موضوع mawzo'
- topic in Arabic
- مَوْضُوع mawḍūʕ, مَوَاضِيع mawāḍīʕ
- topic in Malay
- topik, tema
- topic in Indonesian
- topik, tema
- topic in Thai
- หัวข้อ hǔua-kɔ̂ɔ, กระทู้ grà-túu
- topic in Vietnamese
- chủ đề
- topic in Myanmar
- အကြောင်း a.kraung:
Examples of topic in a sentence
- an interesting topic of conversation
- romance is a topic that frequently comes up in conversation
- The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy.2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
Synonyms of topic
Forms of topic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | topick |
| Noun | |
| plural | topics |
Origin of topic
From Latin topica, from Ancient Greek τοπικός (topikós, “pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”), from τόπος (tópos, “a place”).
Words formed from topic
Phrases with topic
Words that rhyme with topic
- microscopic
- polytropic
- telescopic
- tropic
- catascopic
- megascopic
- monotropic
- myopic
- tonotopic
- allotopic
- diascopic
- dystropic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ectopic
- fibroscopic
- gonadotropic
- macroscopic
- microendoscopic
- monoscopic
- polytopic
- proctoscopic
- rhinoscopic
- thermoscopic
- thermotropic
- acroscopic
- adrenocorticotropic
- aerotropic
- Afrotropic
- allotropic
- amblyopic
- ametropic
- anascopic
- anoscopic
- anthropic
- antigonadotropic
- antitropic
- antroscopic
- apocopic
- arthroscopic
- arthrotropic
- asthenopic
- astroscopic
- atopic
- auriscopic
- autoscopic
- autostereoscopic
- baroscopic
- barotropic
- basiscopic
- bathmotropic
- bioscopic
- bronchoscopic
- brontoscopic
- chemotropic
- chromatophorotropic
- chromoendoscopic
- chromotropic
- chronoscopic
- chronotopic
- chronotropic
- colorectoscopic
Questions about topic
- What does topic mean?
- Topic means topical.
- What is topic in Hindi?
- Topic in Hindi is प्रसंग (prasaṅg), विषय (viṣay). See Topic meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use topic in a sentence?
- an interesting topic of conversation
- What part of speech is topic?
- Topic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce topic?
- Topic is pronounced /ˈtɒpɪk/ (UK).
Words near topic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: topic (page history and authors); topic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ప్రసక్తి (Telugu) (page history and authors); വിഷയം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಅಧಿಕಾರ (Kannada) (page history and authors); گل (Punjabi) (page history and authors); વિષય (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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