article

article is a 7-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.
3. noun. Subject; matter; concern; distinct.
4. noun. A distinct part.
5. noun. A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article.
6. noun. Precise point of time; moment.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. One of the segments of an articulated appendage.
9. noun. To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
10. noun. To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.
11. noun. To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.
12. intransitive verb. To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.
13. noun. one of a class of artifacts

    "an article of clothing"

14. noun. nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
15. noun. (grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase
16. noun. a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)

    Synonyms: clause

17. verb. bind by a contract; especially for a training period

Synonyms

clause

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in article:

recital, talcier

Common word forms

articled, articles, articling

Words from these letters

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