Clues for the word "SUBJECT"
We've had 26 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 41 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on November 26, 2025.
Definition of subject
- a. - Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- a. - Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
- a. - Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
- a. - Obedient; submissive.
- a. - That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
- a. - Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States.
- a. - That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
- a. - That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
- a. - The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
- a. - That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb.
- a. - That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
- a. - Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2.
- n. - The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
- n. - The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
- v. t. - To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
- v. t. - To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
- v. t. - To submit; to make accountable.
- v. t. - To make subservient.
- v. t. - To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
Referring Clues
- What "The Star-Spangled Banner" writer is in this puzzle
- Lab rat or guinea pig
- Guinea pig
- Topic
- Owing allegiance
- National topic of discussion
- The one who does French, say, at school
- Inferior theme
- Theme that has to be mastered
- Topic - branch of study - citizen
- National topic
- Jeb's cut out part of sentence
- Theme - one under rule
- Susceptible (to)
- 17 or 20 for student as part of sentence
- Matter caught between modes of transport
- National coach had up by judge for therapy
- Theme, topic
- Field of study
- Expose; field of study
- National issue
- National field
- Branch of study for citizen
- I, for one
- Sentence focus, grammatically
- Force to experience, as a model
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - November 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 22, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 05, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 22, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 08, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 15, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 11, 2023
- Your Life Choices - May 02, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 11, 2022
- Your Life Choices - June 18, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - December 11, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - September 03, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - September 01, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - December 12, 2016
- LA Times - August 03, 2015
- Guardian Speedy - February 22, 2015
- Guardian Speedy - February 02, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - January 09, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 28, 2013
- Guardian Speedy - October 28, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - July 18, 2012
- Guardian Quick - May 17, 2012
- Guardian Everyman - January 08, 2012
- Guardian Quick - May 23, 2011
- Guardian Speedy - March 20, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - January 25, 2011
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 08, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - September 27, 2010
- And in 11 more crossword puzzles...