article
A piece of nonfiction writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, encyclopedia, etc.
Other meanings
An object, a member of a group or class.
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).
Related words
- adverticle
- articleless
- scholarly article
- toilet article kit
- articleship
- counterarticle
- interarticle
- pseudoarticle
- quinquarticular
- subarticle
- charticle
- definite article
Word history
From Latin "artus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “article” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.