- a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
- an individual object, member, or portion of a class; an item or particular: an article of food;articles of clothing.
- something of indefinite character or description: What is that article?
- an item for sale; commodity.
- any member of a small class of words, or, as in Swedish or Romanian, affixes, found in certain languages, as English, French, and Arabic, that are linked to nouns and that typically have a grammatical function identifying the noun as a noun rather than describing it. In English the definite article is the, the indefinite article is a or an, and their force is generally to impart specificity to the noun or to single out the referent from the class named by the noun.
- a clause, item, point, or particular in a contract, treaty, or other formal agreement; a condition or stipulation in a contract or bargain: The lawyers disagreed on the article covering plagiarism suits.
- a separate clause or provision of a statute.
- a person: Trust me, this guy's not just any article, he's Mr. Right.
- a subject or matter of interest, thought, business, etc.
- a specific or critical point of time; juncture or moment: the article of death.
- to set forth in articles; charge or accuse specifically: They articled his alleged crimes.
- to bind by articles of covenant or stipulation: to article an apprentice.
- one of a class of objects; item
- an unspecified or previously named thing, esp a small object
- a distinct part of a subject or action
- a written composition on a subject, often being one of several found in a magazine, newspaper, etc
- a kind of determiner, occurring in many languages including English, that lacks independent meaning but may serve to indicate the specificity of reference of the noun phrase with which it occurs
- a clause or section in a written document such as a treaty, contract, statute, etc
- formerly, undergoing training, according to the terms of a written contract, in the legal profession
- (often capital) Christianity See article of faith, Thirty-nine Articles
- a topic or subject
- to accuse