subject matter

1. 1.

   what a communication that is about something is about

   Synonymsmessagecontentsubstance

   Broadercommunication

   Narrowerbodycorkerreminderrequestmemoriallatent contentsubjectdigressionmeaningnonsense

Questions about subject matter

What does subject matter mean?

subject matter means "what a communication that is about something is about".

What is another word for subject matter?

Close synonyms include message, content, substance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is subject matter a common word?

subject matter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.