topos
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
/ˈtoʊpɒs/
Definition of topos
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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
-
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.”
- A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).
- (slang)A toilet.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”). Compare topic.
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