Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun topos

1 sense of topos

Sense 1
topos -- (a traditional theme or motif or literary convention; "James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses")
       => theme, motif -- (a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme")