article
A piece of nonfiction writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, encyclopedia, etc.
Noun 4 meanings
A piece of nonfiction writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, encyclopedia, etc.
An object, a member of a group or class.
“an article of clothing”
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).
A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
Verb 2 meanings
To bind by articles of apprenticeship.
“to article an apprentice to a mechanic”
To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
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)”).
ARTICLE at a glance
ARTICLE has 7 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (A 1 + R 1 + T 1 + I 1 + C 3 + L 1 + E 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #805 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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