article

Meaning

1. A piece of nonfiction writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, encyclopedia, etc.
2. An object, a member of a group or class.
3. 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).
4. A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
5. Short for genuine article.
6. A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
7. A person; an individual.
8. (obsolete,slang) A wench.
9. Subject matter; concern.
10. A distinct part.
11. (obsolete) A precise point in time; a moment.

thing

item

news story

manufactured product

hidden meaning

manufactured article

news bulletin

piece of writing

written text

literary works

letters to the editor

agreements

things

throw

statute title

ustensil

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɑːtɪkəl/

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)”). Doublet of articulus.

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