Usually means: Recurring theme associated with entity.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. leitmotif: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. leitmotif: Merriam-Webster
  3. leitmotif: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. leitmotif: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. leitmotif: Collins English Dictionary
  6. leitmotif: Vocabulary.com
  7. leitmotif: Wordnik
  8. leitmotif: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. leitmotif: Wiktionary
  10. leitmotif: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. leitmotif (leitmotiv): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. leitmotif: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. leitmotif: Dictionary.com
  14. leitmotif: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Leitmotif (album), Leitmotif: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Leitmotif: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. leitmotif: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. leitmotif: Rhymezone
  19. Leitmotif: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. leitmotif: FreeDictionary.org
  21. leitmotif: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. leitmotif: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. leitmotif: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leitmotif: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leitmotif: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leitmotif: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leitmotif: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (music) A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera.
noun:  (by extension) A recurring theme.

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