1 a design or a pattern used as a decoration:
wallpaper with a flower motif
2 a subject, an idea or a phrase that is repeated and developed in a work of literature or a piece of music
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for motif is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is motif a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, motif is tagged as noun.
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