1. subject - noun
· the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love"
Hypernym(s): message, content, subject_matter, substance
2. subject - noun
· something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"
Synonym(s): content, depicted_object
Hypernym(s): thing
3. subject - noun
· a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
Synonym(s): discipline, subject_area, subject_field, field, field_of_study, study, bailiwick
Hypernym(s): knowledge_domain, knowledge_base, domain
4. subject - noun
· some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
Synonym(s): topic, issue, matter
Hypernym(s): content, cognitive_content, mental_object
5. subject - noun
· (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
Hypernym(s): constituent, grammatical_constituent
6. subject - noun
· a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
Synonym(s): case, guinea_pig
Hypernym(s): person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
7. subject - noun
· a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"
Synonym(s): national
Hypernym(s): person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
8. subject - noun
· (logic) the first term of a proposition
Hypernym(s): term
9. subject - verb
· cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"
Hypernym(s): affect, impact, bear_upon, bear_on, touch_on, touch
10. subject - verb
· make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"
Hypernym(s): submit
11. subject - verb
· make subservient; force to submit or subdue
Synonym(s): subjugate
12. subject - adjective
· possibly accepting or permitting; "a passage capable of misinterpretation"; "open to interpretation"; "an issue open to question"; "the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation"
13. subject - adjective
· being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"
Synonym(s): dependent
14. subject - adjective
· likely to be affected by something; "the bond is subject to taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression"
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