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TOPOS (topoi)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does topos mean? 

TOPOS (noun)
  The noun TOPOS has 1 sense:

1. a traditional theme or motif or literary conventionplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


TOPOS (noun)


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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