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Definition of article : 1. A distinct part.
2. A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement.
3. A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.
4. A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article.
5. One of the segments of an articulated appendage.
6. One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A ( or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.
7. Precise point of time; moment.
8. Subject; matter; concern; distinct.
9. To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.
10. To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.
11. To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.
12. To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.

Synonyms:

study, chapter, denomination, name, editorial, expression, exposition, column, phrase, detail, word, particular, point, stipulation

provision, condition, proviso, term, codicil, post script, clause, caveat

criticism, examination, interpolation, assertion, dissertation, thesis, position, commentary, argument, hypothesis, research, conjecture, critique, analysis, contention, postulation, opinion, premise, essay, discussion

fraction, matter, member, element, item, segment, percentage, factor, constituent, medium, section, feature, fragment, component, filament, piece, part, portion, material, ingredient

goods, produce, cargo, ware, merchandise, effects, commodity, stock, inventory, staple

something, stuff, object, body, substance, unit, thing

monograph, treatise, report, portrayal, summary, history, account, record, journal, anecdote, recounting, description, log, chronicle, statement, table, telling, diary, retelling, narrative, memoir

Usage examples:

• I seen from the first that you were the real article. - "The Girl of the Golden West", David Belasco.
• She is well now; then I have had to set in order the rest of my poor Bouilhet's papers, on whom I have begun the article. - "The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters", George Sand, Gustave Flaubert Translated by A.L. McKensie.
• It may be some one who wants"- " An article," said Milton cheerfully. - "A First Family of Tasajara", Bret Harte.