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articleless

adj

Etymology

From article + -less.

  1. derived from *h₂értus✻
  2. derived from artus
  3. derived from articulus — “a joint, limb, member, part, division, the article in grammar, a point of time”
  4. derived from article
  5. inherited from article
  6. suffixed as articleless — “article + less”

Definitions

  1. Without articles.

    • Mandarin, Korean, and almost all of the Slavic languages are articleless.
    • A striking feature of English is the use of abstract nouns as articleless referring expressions, indicating that many abstract things are seen as inherently unique.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for articleless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA