subject matter

See also: subject-matter

English

Alternative forms

• subject-matter

Noun

subject matter (countable and uncountable, plural subject matters)

1. The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.
   • 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC‎:

     When it was released in 2005, Brokeback Mountain entered the collective consciousness in a way that is vanishingly rare for a film with queer subject matter.

Translations

object of thought

Arabic: الموضوع، مادة البحث Armenian: նյութ (hy) (nyutʻ) Chinese: Mandarin: 主題 / 主题 (zh) (zhǔtí), 題材 / 题材 (zh) (tícái) Finnish: asiasisältö (matter or thought presented for consideration); aihepiiri (object of thought or study) French: sujet (fr) m Georgian: განხილვის საგანი (ganxilvis sagani) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: тақырыптама (taqyryptama) Maori: kiko Polish: tematyka (pl) f Russian: тема́тика (ru) f (temátika) Spanish: tema (es) m Swedish: ämne (sv) n Yiddish: אינהאַלט m (inhalt)