Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The subject or matter presented for consideration in some written or oral statement or discussion.
Wiktionary
- n. The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.
WordNet 3.0
- n. what a communication that is about something is about
Examples
“Yet you're bound to wonder if it's just another ego trip that allows new subject-matter and a new persona for his journalism, the laddish type being so 1990s and, in any case, not quite right for a man nearing his sixth decade.”
“Barnett Newman said “Most people think of subject-matter as what Meyer Shapiro has called ‘object-matter.’””
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“Lisette smiled and remarked, "So often you two girls photograph the same subject-matter, but you have such very different points-of-view!”
The Huffington Post: Jill Lynne: Red Grooms and "Moi"-- Art That Makes You Smile
“Whichever, in finding insights one should be prepared to have to pay the usual price for excellence: spending a lot of time to get to know the subject-matter.”
“Particularly the one about spotlighting an African-American audience and changes in subject-matter.”
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“Second, based on the ideas you submit and the comments they receive, a team of world-class visual artists and subject-matter experts will select the most promising ideas for sustainable communities in a variety of cultures.”
The Huffington Post: William S. Becker: Let's Talk About the Future We Want
“ConvergeUS intends to organize annual summits to bring together technologists, social entrepreneurs and subject-matter experts to explore the potential of technology to help societal needs in areas such as early childhood education, healthcare and military families.”
The Huffington Post: Thomas Kalil: Information Technology and Social Progress
“The continual plight of a Sri Lankan's quest for employment would not - under normal circumstances - make the BBC's 6 o'clock news coverage, yet the subject-matter is interesting, absorbing and newsworthy.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Hill: Journalism's Feminine Touch
“There is a profound distinction between the vehicle of a work of art, the intellectual carrier through which an artist receives his subject-matter and transmits it to his immediate audience, and both the form and matter of his work.”
“Later in this chapter, Dewey writes that "Since a work of art is the subject-matter of experiences heightened and intensified, the purpose that determines what is esthetically essential is precisley the formation of an experience as an experience.”
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