ar·ti·cle 
(är
t
-k
l)
KEY NOUN:
- An individual thing or element of a class; a particular object or item: an article of clothing; articles of food.
- A particular section or item of a series in a written document, as in a contract, constitution, or treaty.
- A nonfictional literary composition that forms an independent part of a publication, as of a newspaper or magazine.
- Grammar
- The part of speech used to indicate nouns and to specify their application.
- Any of the words belonging to this part of speech. In English, the indefinite articles are a and an and the definite article is the.
- A particular part or subject; a specific matter or point.
TRANSITIVE VERB: ar·ti·cled,
ar·ti·cling,
ar·ti·cles - To bind by articles set forth in a contract, such as one of apprenticeship.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English, from Old French, from Latin
articulus,
joint, article, diminutive of
artus,
joint (translation of Greek
arthron,
joint, article); see
ar- in Indo-European roots
