Definition of subjects

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • subjects is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 19
  • subjects is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 19
  • subjects is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 24

Definition of subjects


  • a branch of knowledge (noun)

    Examples

    1. teachers should be well trained in their subject

    Synonyms

    1. bailiwick
    2. discipline
    3. field
    4. field of study
    5. study
    6. subject area
    7. subject field
  • possibly accepting or permitting (adjective)

    Examples

    1. the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation

    Synonyms

    1. capable
    2. open
  • a person who owes allegiance to that nation (noun)

    Examples

    1. a monarch has a duty to his subjects

    Synonyms

    1. national
  • being under the power or sovereignty of another or others (adjective)

    Examples

    1. subject peoples

    Synonyms

    1. dependent
  • make subservient; force to submit or subdue (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. subjugate
  • the subject matter of a conversation or discussion (noun)

    Examples

    1. he didn't want to discuss that subject

    Synonyms

    1. theme
    2. topic
  • something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation (noun)

    Examples

    1. a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject

    Synonyms

    1. content
    2. depicted object
  • a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation (noun)

    Examples

    1. the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly

    Synonyms

    1. case
    2. guinea pig
  • some situation or event that is thought about (noun)

    Examples

    1. he had been thinking about the subject for several years

    Synonyms

    1. issue
    2. matter
    3. topic
  • cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to (verb)

    Examples

    1. He subjected me to his awful poetry
    2. The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills
    3. People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation
  • (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated (noun)
  • likely to be affected by something (adjective)

    Examples

    1. the bond is subject to taxation
    2. he is subject to fits of depression
  • (logic) the first term of a proposition (noun)
  • make accountable for (verb)

    Examples

    1. He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors

See definition of subjects in Merriam Webster