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TOPOS
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Irregular inflected form: topoi
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A traditional theme or motif or literary convention
Example:
James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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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