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TOPOS (topoi)
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Irregular inflected form: 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
Sense 1
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 literary or artistic work)
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