TOPIC SENTENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does topic sentence mean? 

• TOPIC SENTENCE (noun)
  The noun TOPIC SENTENCE has 1 sense:

1. a sentence that states the topic of its paragraph

  Familiarity information: TOPIC SENTENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOPIC SENTENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sentence that states the topic of its paragraph

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("topic sentence" is a kind of...):

sentence (a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language)