Definition:
- (a.) Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- (a.) Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
- (a.) Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
- (a.) Obedient; submissive.
- (a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
- (a.) Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States.
- (a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
- (a.) That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
- (a.) The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
- (a.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb.
- (a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
- (a.) Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2.
- (n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
- (n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
- (v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
- (v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
- (v. t.) To submit; to make accountable.
- (v. t.) To make subservient.
- (v. t.) To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
Compare subject with other words:
entitle vs. subject
content vs. subject
entity vs. subject
nation vs. subject
description vs. subject
self vs. subject
point vs. subject
subject vs. subnect
respondent vs. subject
book vs. subject
speciality vs. subject
obtain vs. subject
subject vs. suffer
noun vs. subject
discipline vs. subject
concern vs. subject
citizenship vs. subject
subject vs. underyoke
subject vs. uncustomable
subject vs. tractation
subject vs. subjectless
metabasis vs. subject
pancarte vs. subject
evaluatee vs. subject
major vs. subject
subdue vs. subject
category vs. subject
subject vs. suppose
subject vs. subjected
subject vs. subjugate
right vs. subject
mobile vs. subject
depend vs. subject
issue vs. subject
lesson vs. subject
objectively vs. subject
contingent vs. subject
argument vs. subject
illustrated vs. subject
exemplified vs. subject
subject vs. undergo
subject vs. substance
agent vs. subject
subject vs. underdo
copulative vs. subject
merce vs. subject
predicative vs. subject
queendom vs. subject
attender vs. subject
hereto vs. subject
hereon vs. subject
smattering vs. subject
pillory vs. subject
imperishable vs. subject
interpose vs. subject
subject vs. warning
slave vs. subject
aim vs. subject
subject vs. text
studies vs. subject
digression vs. subject
subject vs. thematic
hunted vs. subject
miscellany vs. subject
impressionism vs. subject
subject vs. supplement
subject vs. taxpayer
subject vs. taxable
dependency vs. subject
dux vs. subject
subject vs. treatise
monomania vs. subject
discourse vs. subject
subject vs. uncertain
reflexive vs. subject
remedial vs. subject
ordeal vs. subject
stretto vs. subject
conversion vs. subject
institute vs. subject
iconography vs. subject
calypso vs. subject
subject vs. submit
penalize vs. subject
subject vs. title
airing vs. subject
item vs. subject
national vs. subject
subject vs. vassal
motive vs. subject
liege vs. subject
incur vs. subject
gaze vs. subject
circumstantial vs. subject
apperception vs. subject
autonomous vs. subject
subject vs. testee
question vs. subject
purpose vs. subject
raise vs. subject
subject vs. tenor
eject vs. subject
complement vs. subject
starring vs. subject
subject vs. under
analyse vs. subject
analyze vs. subject
subject vs. thread
lore vs. subject
should vs. subject
idea vs. subject
fast vs. subject
dissertation vs. subject
subject vs. subjective
domain vs. subject
people vs. subject
judge vs. subject
sovereign vs. subject
subject vs. underlie
sentence vs. subject
break vs. subject
canary vs. subject
slang vs. subject
predicate vs. subject
matter vs. subject
object vs. subject
fugue vs. subject
subject vs. theme
monarchy vs. subject
melody vs. subject
discussion vs. subject
citizen vs. subject
art vs. subject
subject vs. topic
clause vs. subject
copula vs. subject
concrete vs. subject
for vs. subject
copulate vs. subject
subject vs. you
know vs. subject
subject vs. word
course vs. subject
accidence vs. subject
servant vs. subject
prattle vs. subject
head vs. subject