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subject noun 1 a a matter, topic, person, etc that is under discussion or consideration or that features as the major theme in a book, film, play, etc; b the person that a biography is written about. 2 an area of learning that forms a course of study. 3 someone or something that an artist, sculptor, photographer, etc chooses to represent. 4 someone who undergoes an experiment, operation, form of treatment, hypnosis, psychoanalysis, etc. 5 someone who is ruled by a monarch, government, etc; a citizen • became an American subject. 6 grammar a word, phrase or clause which indicates the person or thing that performs the action of an active verb or that receives the action of a passive verb, eg The doctor is the subject in The doctor saw us, and We is the subject in We were seen by the doctor. See also nominative. 7 music the dominant pattern of notes that is repeated in a composition. Also called theme. adj 1 (often subject to something) a liable; showing a tendency; prone • Harry is subject to huge mood swings; b exposed; open • left himself subject to ridicule; c conditional upon something. 2 dependent; ruled by a monarch or government • a subject nation. adverb (always subject to) conditionally upon something • You may go, subject to your parent's permission. verb (subjected, subjecting) 1 (usually subject someone or something to something) to cause them or it to undergo or experience something unwelcome, unpleasant, etc • subjected them to years of abuse • As a diver, he was constantly subjected to danger. 2 to make (a person, a people, nation, etc) subordinate to or under the control of another. subjectless adj. subjectship noun.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c: from Latin subjectus or thrown under, inferior.

subject noun 1 a a matter, topic, person, etc that is under discussion or consideration or that features as the major theme in a book, film, play, etc; b the person that a biography is written about. 2 an area of learning that forms a course of study. 3 someone or something that an artist, sculptor, photographer, etc chooses to represent. 4 someone who undergoes an experiment, operation, form of treatment, hypnosis, psychoanalysis, etc. 5 someone who is ruled by a monarch, government, etc; a citizen • became an American subject. 6 grammar a word, phrase or clause which indicates the person or thing that performs the action of an active verb or that receives the action of a passive verb, eg The doctor is the subject in The doctor saw us, and We is the subject in We were seen by the doctor. See also nominative. 7 music the dominant pattern of notes that is repeated in a composition. Also called theme. adj 1 (often subject to something) a liable; showing a tendency; prone • Harry is subject to huge mood swings; b exposed; open • left himself subject to ridicule; c conditional upon something. 2 dependent; ruled by a monarch or government • a subject nation. adverb (always subject to) conditionally upon something • You may go, subject to your parent's permission. verb (subjected, subjecting) 1 (usually subject someone or something to something) to cause them or it to undergo or experience something unwelcome, unpleasant, etc • subjected them to years of abuse • As a diver, he was constantly subjected to danger. 2 to make (a person, a people, nation, etc) subordinate to or under the control of another. subjectless adj. subjectship noun.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c: from Latin subjectus or thrown under, inferior.

subject noun 1 a a matter, topic, person, etc that is under discussion or consideration or that features as the major theme in a book, film, play, etc; b the person that a biography is written about. 2 an area of learning that forms a course of study. 3 someone or something that an artist, sculptor, photographer, etc chooses to represent. 4 someone who undergoes an experiment, operation, form of treatment, hypnosis, psychoanalysis, etc. 5 someone who is ruled by a monarch, government, etc; a citizen • became an American subject. 6 grammar a word, phrase or clause which indicates the person or thing that performs the action of an active verb or that receives the action of a passive verb, eg The doctor is the subject in The doctor saw us, and We is the subject in We were seen by the doctor. See also nominative. 7 music the dominant pattern of notes that is repeated in a composition. Also called theme. adj 1 (often subject to something) a liable; showing a tendency; prone • Harry is subject to huge mood swings; b exposed; open • left himself subject to ridicule; c conditional upon something. 2 dependent; ruled by a monarch or government • a subject nation. adverb (always subject to) conditionally upon something • You may go, subject to your parent's permission. verb (subjected, subjecting) 1 (usually subject someone or something to something) to cause them or it to undergo or experience something unwelcome, unpleasant, etc • subjected them to years of abuse • As a diver, he was constantly subjected to danger. 2 to make (a person, a people, nation, etc) subordinate to or under the control of another. subjectless adj. subjectship noun.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c: from Latin subjectus or thrown under, inferior.