Subject
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In politics a subject is a person who is subordinate to the rule of a monarch or state. Compare with citizen.
In linguistics, the subject of a verb is the doer of the verb. Compare with object, which is the "doee".
For example: The noun dog is the subject of the following clause:
- The dog ate corn.
See also: object, linguistics
In philosophy, a subject is a being which has experiences or a relationship with another entity (or "object").
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Subject" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
