article

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A piece of writing in a newspaper, magazine, or website.

   I read an interesting article about climate change.

2. 2
   noun

   A particular object or item, especially one of a group.

   Every article of clothing was neatly folded.

3. 3
   noun

   A word such as 'a', 'an', or 'the' that comes before a noun.

   In English, 'the' is the definite article.

4. 4
   noun

   A separate section of a legal or official document.

   Article 5 of the treaty deals with defense.

From Middle English article, from Old French article, from Latin articulus (“a joint, limb, member, part, division, the article in grammar, a point of time”), from Latin artus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂értus (“that which is fit together; juncture, ordering”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join, fit (together)”). Doublet of articulus.

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