Dictionary

subject matter en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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 of damaged characters; to make matters worse, the typist has failed to keep the type clean. 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.”, in Medium Ævum, volume 34, number 2, Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, →DOI, page 174:
   • When it was released in 2005, Brokeback Mountain entered the collective consciousness in a way that is vanishingly rare for a film with queer subject matter. 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC:

Forms

Deriveds

subject-matter expert

Translations (14)

kk тақырыптама (object of thought) · fi aihepiiri (object of thought) · hy նյութ (object of thought) · cmn 主題 /主题 (object of thought) · fi asiasisältö (object of thought) · pl tematyka (object of thought) · ru тема́тика (object of thought) · ar الموضوع، مادة البحث (object of thought) · sv ämne (object of thought) · mi kiko (object of thought) · ka განხილვის საგანი (object of thought) · fr sujet (object of thought) · yi אינהאַלט (object of thought) · cmn 題材 /题材 (object of thought)