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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A member of the class of determiners that restricts or particularizes a noun. In English, the is the definite article.

Wiktionary

  1. n. 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Gram.) the article the, which is used to designate a particular person or thing, or a particular class of persons or things; -- also called a definitive. See Definitive, n.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a determiner (as `the' in English) that indicates specificity of reference

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  1. indefinite
  2. article
  3. all
  4. Christ
  5. evangelist
  6. everlasting
  7. definitive
  8. unexpected
  9. zoo-
  10. clitic
  11. globe
  12. au
  13. cheese
  14. dickens
  15. la
  16. al-
  1. crown
  2. east
  3. common noun
  4. definite article
  5. piece
  6. west
  7. affirmative
  8. al
  9. antique
  10. christ-child
  11. cloth
  12. community
  13. conditioned
  14. deity
  15. delphian
  16. deuce
  1. devil
  2. divinity
  3. ecclesiast
  4. finite
  5. heathen
  6. idea
  7. kingdom
  8. laugh
  9. le
  10. lord
  11. metaphysics
  12. military
  13. moment
  14. north
  15. northwest
  16. occident
  1. offensive
  2. omnipotent
  3. orient
  4. outside
  5. people
  6. pointer
  7. profound
  8. quick
  9. rabble
  10. ready
  11. reformation
  12. round
  13. sacrament
  14. same
  15. Scripture
  16. sex
  1. shade
  2. shake
  3. smell
  4. southwest
  5. stage
  6. state
  7. sublime
  8. suffrage
  9. supernatural
  10. supreme
  11. that
  12. theocracy
  13. throne
  14. thunderer
  15. town
  16. tropic
  1. weed
  2. welsh

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