Other forms: topics
A topic is the subject being talked or written about. Change the topic, off topic, a topic sentence.
A topic sentence states what a paragraph is about, and putting it first is the single most useful habit in clear writing. Off topic is the standard rebuke in a discussion. Note that the Greek topos means a place — a topic was first a common place where arguments were found.
1nountopicThe subject being talked or written about.
“Let's change the topic; I don't want to talk about work.”
topic is a subject.
Greek topikos comes from topos, a place. Topography and utopia come from the same place.
Ancient Greek
τοπικός — pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical
Latin
topica
English, today
topic
Built from
From Latin topica, from Ancient Greek τοπικός (“pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”), from τόπος (“a place”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA