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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the class of determiners that restricts or particularizes a noun. In English, the is the definite article.
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- noun grammar An
article that introduces a noun and specifies it as the particular noun that is being considered; in English, the only definite article isthe .
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- noun a determiner (as `the' in English) that indicates specificity of reference
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