Subject matter

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. countable, uncountable

    "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 of damaged characters; to make matters worse, the typist has failed to keep the type clean."

  2. 2
    content communicating a message; what something is about wordnet

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