subject
Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
Adjective 4 meanings
Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
“a country subject to extreme heat”
Conditional upon something; used with to.
“The local board sets local policy, subject to approval from the State Board.”
Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
“, Book I Esau was never subject to Jacob.”
Noun 4 meanings
The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
“In the active sentence ‘The cat ate the mouse’, ‘the cat’ is the subject and ‘the mouse’ is the object.”
By extension: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
“the subjects and objects of power”
The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
A particular area of study.
“Her favorite subject is physics.”
Verb 2 meanings
To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
“I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!”
To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
Etymology
From Middle English subget, from Old French suget, from Latin subiectus (“lying under or near, adjacent, also subject, exposed”), as a noun, subiectus (“a subject, an inferior”), subiectum (“the subject of a proposition”), past participle of subiciō (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ὑποκείμενον (hupokeímenon).
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SUBJECT at a glance
SUBJECT has 7 letters and scores 18 points in Scrabble (S 1 + U 1 + B 3 + J 8 + E 1 + C 3 + T 1) and 23 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,136 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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