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TOPOS (topoi)

Dictionary entry overview: What does topos mean?

• TOPOS (noun)
The noun TOPOS has 1 sense:

1. a traditional theme or motif or literary convention

Familiarity information: TOPOS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TOPOS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A traditional theme or motif or literary convention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses

Hypernyms ("topos" is a kind of...):

motif; theme (a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work)

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