definite article
noun
an article, as English the, that classes as identified or definite the noun it modifies.
definite articles
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pluralof definite article.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Grammar and pronunciation Telltale tyro signs include adding definite articles to freeway names.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
In this land that cherishes liberty, there is no place any more for definite articles.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2018
But bit by bit the language is taking shape, definite articles and nouns and indirect objects and verbs and prepositional phrases hanging off subjects and predicates and predicate complements like a Calder mobile.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
That chatty title, in the wake of a filmography that has little use for definite articles and none for prepositions, hints at Neeson’s aspirations to a higher screen IQ.
From Time ● Sep. 18, 2014
Has the French language, in its idiomatic structure definite articles and indefinite, as in Latin?
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
