Usually means: Recurring musical themes representing characters.
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  1. leitmotifs: Merriam-Webster
  2. leitmotifs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. leitmotifs: Vocabulary.com
  4. leitmotifs: Wordnik
  5. leitmotifs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. leitmotifs: Wiktionary
  7. leitmotifs: Dictionary.com
  8. Leitmotifs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (leitmotif)

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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