1 ~ (on / about sth) a piece of writing about a particular subject in a newspaper or magazine:
Have you seen that article about young fashion designers?
seealsoLEADINGARTICLE
2 (law) a separate item in an agreement or a contract:
The proposal breaches article 10 of the European Convention, which guarantees free speech.
3 (formal) a particular item or separate thing, especially one of a set:
articles of clothing * toilet articles such as soap, toothpaste and shampoo * The articles found in the car helped the police to identify the body.
4 (grammar) the words a and an (the indefinite article) or the (the definite article)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for article is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is article a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, article is tagged as noun.
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