(grammar) An article that introduces a noun and specifies it as the particular noun that is being considered; in English, the only definite article is the.

(grammar) A word preceding a noun to indicate that the noun refers to any member of the class of objects named by the noun.

(historical) sugar, tobacco, cotton and indigo - the goods that the English colonies could export only to England in the 17th century

The standard operating procedures for buccaneers in the late 17th century; covered division of plunder, behaviour, punishment and compensation etc.

(grammar) In some languages, such as French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, a contraction of a preposition and an article, e.g. au in French (a contraction of à and le).

(law) An apprentice in law.

plural of indefinite article

plural of definite article

plural of article of faith

A thing that is believed as a matter of faith.