article
Forms
- Plural
- articles
- present (v1)
- article
- past (v2)
- articled
- past participle (v3)
- articled
- present participle
- articling
- 3rd person singular
- articles
Definitions
1.A piece of nonfiction writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, encyclopedia, etc.
- I cut the article out of the magazine.
2.An object, a member of a group or class.
- Had he bought nitre before, I have since tried to recall and I cannot. It is a common enough article and I sell it every day.
3.A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
- I cut the article out of the magazine.
4.A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).
- I cut the article out of the magazine.
1.To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
- After educational training at Hayes Grammar School and Hayes College, Mr. Nokes was articled to a Surveyor and Land Agent in 1885, and, at the expiration of his articles, became a partner in the firm.
2.To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
- If […]all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #554
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
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)”).