topos

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈtoʊpɒs/

Definition of topos

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
    “The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.”
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noun

  1. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
    “The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.”
  2. A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).
  3. (slang)A toilet.

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”). Compare topic.

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