{
    "term": "article",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a piece of writing about a particular subject in a newspaper or magazine, on a website, etc.",
            "sensetop": "article (by somebody) on somethingarticle (by somebody) about somethingaccording to an article",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **read/write/publish an article**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her comment follows an article posted online by the ‘Huffington Post’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I read an interesting article by a well-known scientist on the subject of genetics.",
                    "contextForm": "article (by somebody) on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Have you seen that article about young fashion designers?",
                    "contextForm": "article (by somebody) about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "According to a recent **newspaper article**, the company is worth over $20 billion.",
                    "contextForm": "according to an article"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A leading article in ‘The Times’ accused the minister of lying."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wrote about his political career in a series of articles published in a national newspaper."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm doing an article about ways of preventing pollution."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was her job to commission occasional articles."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The article appears in this week's edition of ‘The Spectator’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The article looks at two questions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The magazine includes a how-to article on building a greenhouse."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The magazine refused to publish his article."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an article on the dangers of sunbathing"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["brilliant", "excellent", "fascinating"],
                "… of articles": ["series"],
                "verb + article": ["author", "co-author", "do"],
                "article + verb": ["appear", "contain something", "feature something"],
                "preposition": ["in an/​the article", "article about", "article on"],
                "phrases": [
                    "an article called something",
                    "an article entitled something",
                    "an article headed something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a separate item in an agreement or a contract",
            "labels": "(law)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Article 10 of the European Convention guarantees free speech."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The key articles of the constitution can only be changed by referendum."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Article 7 provides that all businesses must be registered correctly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several articles of the 1955 treaty were rewritten."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The actions of the organization are in breach of Article 12 of the treaty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The judge ordered the child's return home under Article 6 of the Convention."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Law and justice"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["key"],
                "verb + article": ["be in breach of", "breach", "contravene"],
                "article + verb": [
                    "provide something",
                    "specify something",
                    "state something"
                ],
                "preposition": ["under an/​the article"],
                "phrases": ["the terms of an article"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a particular item or separate thing, especially one of a set",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "articles of clothing"
                },
                {
                    "text": "toilet articles such as soap and shampoo"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The articles left at the scene helped the police to identify the criminals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The finished article takes two months to manufacture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fake designer watches are sold at a fraction of the price of the genuine article."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "item",
            "topics": ["Shopping"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["finished", "the genuine", "offending"],
                "verb + article": ["make", "manufacture", "produce"],
                "phrases": ["an article of clothing"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the words a and an (the indefinite article) or the (the definite article)",
            "labels": "(grammar)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Names of countries in English do not usually take an article."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Language"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["definite", "indefinite"],
                "verb + article": ["take"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɑːtɪkl/",
                "audio": "ar/article/article__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɑːrtɪkl/",
                "audio": "ar/article/article__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting a separate clause of the Apostles' Creed, a formal statement of Christian beliefs): from Old French, from Latin articulus ‘small connecting part’, diminutive of artus ‘joint’."
}