topic

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   some situation or event that is thought about

   You kept drifting off the topic.

2. 2
   noun

   Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

   A society where a topic cannot be discussed, does not have free speech.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   An argument or reason.

   contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon

6. 6
   noun

   An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.

   Amongst topics or outward medicines none are more precious than baths.

7. 7
   noun

   the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

8. 8
   adj

   topical

Etymology

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”).