单词 | sub-idea |
释义 | sub-idean. A subordinate, secondary, or lesser idea; an underlying or implicit idea. ΚΠ 1822 S. T. Coleridge in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 8/1 The great idea, and too many of the sub-ideas, of my ideal work awoke. 1878 A. B. Grosart G. Daniel's Poems I. 217 ‘Antike’ = ancient, with the sub-idea of grotesqueness. 1902 Times Dec. 5 11/1 Round this main idea clustered many little sub-ideas. 1995 R. Zaporah Action Theater vii. 95 One sentence can carry a main idea, sub-ideas, and hints of other ideas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1822 |
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