Object
Object noun - One that has a real and independent existence.
Usage example: trying to determine whether communication with the dead is an object for study, a hoax, or a figment of the imagination
How words are described
| special | special object | special subject |
| particular | particular object | particular subject |
| similar | similar object | similar subject |
| common | common object | common subject |
| Other adjectives: specific, certain, current, original, single, obvious, actual, real, main, important, new, given, unknown, titular, different, eponymous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Usually, this is to underscore how obsessed they are with a particular object or subject, though it's also often Played for Laughs.
Source: Skewed Priorities -
Similarly, in Wizard and Glass, the flashback book of The Dark Tower series, Susan and Cordelia use "thee" (said to be part of "the old tongue") in both the subject and the object position, when in reality it was only the object form of "thou".
Source: Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe - He calls it Satsugaisha Kitsune, which translates to Slayer of Foxes.note Actually, it translates to "Fox of Slayers" since the author mixed up the Japanese subject and object.
Source: Fan Fic / A Father's Wrath
Cite this Source
Subject and Object. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/object/subject
Object & Subject. N.p., 2016. Web. 08 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/object/subject>.
Subject or Object. 2016. Accessed August 08, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/object/subject.
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