Article Online Subject Extra Examples Separate Noun ˈɑːtɪkl

• to read/write/publish an article
• her tweet follows an article posted online by the ‘huffington post’.
• i read an interesting article by a well-known scientist on the subject of genetics.
• have you seen that article about young fashion designers?

article

1. a piece of writing about a particular subject in a newspaper or magazine, on a website, etc.
• to read/write/publish an article
• Her tweet follows an article posted online by the ‘Huffington Post’.
• I read an interesting article by a well-known scientist on the subject of genetics.
• Have you seen that article about young fashion designers?
• According to a recent newspaper article, the company is worth over $20 billion.

Extra Examples

• A leading article in ‘The Times’ accused the minister of lying.
• He wrote about his political career in a series of articles published in a national newspaper.
• I'm doing an article about ways of preventing pollution.
• It was her job to commission occasional articles.
• The article appears in this week's edition of ‘The Spectator’.
• The article looks at two questions.
• The magazine includes a how-to article on building a greenhouse.
• The magazine refused to print his article.
• an article on the dangers of sunbathing
2. a separate item in an agreement or a contract
• Article 10 of the European Convention guarantees free speech.

Extra Examples

• The key articles of the constitution can only be changed by referendum.
• Article 7 provides that all businesses must be registered correctly.
• Several articles of the 1955 treaty were rewritten.
• The actions of the organization are in breach of Article 12 of the treaty.
• The judge ordered the child's return home under Article 6 of the Convention.
3. a particular item or separate thing, especially one of a set
• SYNONYM item
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• articles of clothing
• toilet articles such as soap and shampoo
• The articles found in the car helped the police to identify the body.

Extra Examples

• The finished article takes two months to manufacture.
• Fake designer watches are sold at a fraction of the price of the genuine article.
4. the words a and an (the indefinite article) or the (the definite article)
• Names of countries in English do not usually take an article.

Word Origin

• Middle English (denoting a separate clause of the Apostles' Creed, a formal statement of Christian beliefs): from Old French, from Latin articulus ‘small connecting part’, diminutive of artus ‘joint’.