Wiktionary
TOPOS, noun. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
TOPOS, noun. (mathematics) A certain mathematical structure found in category theory.
Dictionary definition
TOPOS, noun. A traditional theme or motif or literary convention; "James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses".
Wise words
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you
want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's
gone, gone forever.
