minitheme

English

Etymology

mini- +‎ theme

Noun

minitheme (plural minithemes)

1. (rare) A minor theme.
   • 2001, Dorothy M. Campbell, Linda S. Harris, Collaborative theme building: how teachers write integrated curriculum:

     Linda: When doing a minitheme on the Winter Olympics with kindergarten children, I reviewed with children the television schedule each day to find events that would be on during the early evening.

   • 2007 August 6, Jon Pareles, “Romance as a Struggle That She Will Win”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The set was full of minithemes: bee references (as in B for Beyoncé), homages to predecessors like James Brown and Donna Summer, reminders about Beyoncé’s celebrity and her fashion tie-ins.