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Subject

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:

See also: object, linguistics


In philosophy, a subject is a being which has experiences or a relationship with another entity (or "object").