: a traditional or conventional literary or rhetorical theme or topic
Examples of topos in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebStudy topos and find areas where no roads are present.—Outdoor Life, 19 Nov. 2019 This inward pull relates to her sense of memory and place: all topics are topos, terrain, their meanings leaved in geologic strata.—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2020
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Word History
Etymology
Greek, short for koinos topos, literally, common place
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