subject
- noun
- /ˈsʌbʤɪkt/
- OK, what's your best subject in school or junior?
- a subject area
- core subjects
- school subjects
Person's name is Sam and the subject is beginning calculus.
- Person's name is Sam and the subject is beginning calculus.
- OK, what's your best subject in school or junior?
- Get a degree in a subject that you find fascinating.
- These are incredible subjects and I feel very lucky to have.
- This is known as specific performance, and it's the subject of today's lecture.
- Why don't we teach the subject of money at school?
- Well, I would strongly agree that pluralism is a subject that is taught.
- That's that's the subject of today's lecture.
Examples
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And on Friday, we'll begin to work on the subject of global warming.
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Mathematics is indisputably the greatest subject in the world.
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Well, what better subject to study than ourselves?
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Choose a subject and press "enter" to begin.
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Get a degree in a subject that you find fascinating.
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Why don't we teach the subject of money at school?
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Music teachers often know their subject more deeply than other colleagues know theirs.
Academic text (2011) -
This is known as specific performance, and it's the subject of today's lecture.
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Educators want to see what grades or subjects they teach and how they are involved in education.
Academic text (2011) -
In my school, we can choose any subject that interests us for our final project.
Synonyms
A particular area of study or work
A subject people learn about, like history or biology
A subject studied at university, like physics or history
A subject of learning like biology or history
A part of learning or teaching about one topic
A set of classes in a subject that lead to a qualification or degree
A subject of science that studies a part of nature like physics or biology
An area of study at a school or university
A particular area of study or work someone focuses on
Compounds
- Specialized
A part of a sentence that shows what it is about and may do the action or be described
How Broad
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word subject for a school area comes from Latin parts sub- ('under') and -ject ('throw'), and it once meant 'something placed under your attention'. So a school subject is a topic put before you to learn or study.