motif
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration
Types & categories
- pattern hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music
Types & categories
- melodic theme hypernym
- obbligato hyponym
Sense 3 noun
a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- thematic derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | pattern |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | melodic theme |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | obbligato |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | thematic |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | thought |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | topos |