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Word article
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / ˈɑːtɪkl / NAmE / ˈɑːrtɪkl /
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  • have you seen that article about young fashion designers?
  • article 10 of the european convention guarantees free speech.
  • articles of clothing
  • toilet articles such as soap and shampoo
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article

(noun)BrE / ˈɑːtɪkl / NAmE / ˈɑːrtɪkl /
  1. a piece of writing about a particular subject in a newspaper or magazine
    • see also leading article
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/leading-article
    • Have you seen that article about young fashion designers?
  2. a separate item in an agreement or a contract
    • Article 10 of the European Convention guarantees free speech.
  3. a particular item or separate thing, especially one of a set
    • synonym item
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/item
    • articles of clothing
    • toilet articles such as soap and shampoo
    • The articles found in the car helped the police to identify the body.
  4. the words a and an (the indefinite article) or the (the definite article)
  5. Extra Examples

    • A leading article in ‘The Times’ accused the minister of lying.
    • An advertisement will now replace the offending article.
    • Article 10 provides that all businesses must be registered correctly.
    • Did you see the article on China in today’s paper?
    • Fake designer watches are sold at a fraction of the price of the genuine article.
    • He always clips and saves articles about people he knows.
    • He got his articles last year.
    • He’s doing his articles with a firm of lawyers in the city.
    • I’m doing an article about ways of preventing pollution.
    • It was her job to commission occasional articles.
    • Names of countries in English do not usually take an article.
    • She admitted she was wrong in an article in the newspaper.
    • The actions of the organization are in breach of Article 12 of the treaty.
    • The actions of the organization violate Article 12 of the treaty.
    • The article appears in this week’s edition of ‘The Spectator’.
    • The article contains a good deal of information about the software.
    • The article goes on to quote from Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’.
    • The article looks at two questions.
    • The finished article takes two months to manufacture.
    • The judge ordered the child’s return home under Article 12 of the Convention.
    • The key articles of the constitution can only be changed by referendum.
    • The magazine includes a how-to article on building a greenhouse.
    • The magazine refused to print his article.
    • The terms of Article 3 will be changed by the new government.
    • an article about atomic clocks by Professor Keith Runcorn
    • an article about wine by Alison Waters
    • an article entitled ‘Think Yourself Thin’
    • an article excerpted from ‘CAD Principles’
    • an article on the dangers of sunbathing
    • Have you seen that article about skyscrapers?
    • He pleaded guilty to two charges of theft of articles of clothing.
    • It was a very interesting article.
    • Several articles of the 1955 treaty were rewritten.
    • The closet was full of expensive toilet articles and perfumes.
    • The proposal breaches article 10 of the European Convention, which guarantees free speech.

    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’.
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