What does Subject Mean?

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
  • (logic) the first term of a proposition
  • a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
  • something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
  • a branch of knowledge
  • a person who owes allegiance to that nation
  • the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  • some situation or event that is thought about
Definition as Verb
  • cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
  • make accountable for
  • make subservient; force to submit or subdue
Definition as Adjective
  • likely to be affected by something
  • possibly accepting or permitting
  • being under the power or sovereignty of another or others

Examples

  • "the bond is subject to taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression"
  • "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"
  • "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"
  • "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
  • "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"
  • "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
  • "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"
  • "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love"
  • "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
  • "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"
  • "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"

Part of Speech

Adjective, Noun, Verb