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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a traditional theme or motif or literary convention;
- Example: "James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

topos
    n 1: a traditional theme or motif or literary convention; "James
         Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses"