Usually means: Recurring theme throughout a work.
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  6. leitmotiv: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  11. leitmotiv: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Leitmotiv)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of leitmotif [(music) A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera.]

Similar:
leitmotif, theme, watchword, dodecaphonic, credo, chaconne, catchword, touchstone, monothematic, motif, more...

Opposite:
antithesis, contradiction, reverse

Adjectives:
wagnerian, constant, musical, important, dominant, new, central, same, recurrent, major, persistent

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Similar:
leitmotif, theme, watchword, dodecaphonic, credo, chaconne, catchword, touchstone, monothematic, motif, more...

Opposite:
antithesis, contradiction, reverse

Adjectives:
wagnerian, constant, musical, important, dominant, new, central, same, recurrent, major, persistent



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