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The meaning of THE is —used as a function word to indicate that a following noun or noun equivalent is definite or has been previously specified by context ...

(used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known ...

The is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise ...

1. referring to a particular person, thing, or group (as opposed to a, an), as:.

used before superlatives and other words, such as "first" or "only" or numbers showing something's position in a list, to refer to only one thing or person:.

THE meaning: 1 : used to indicate a person or thing that has already been mentioned or seen or is clearly understood from the situation; 2 : used to refer ...

Article edit. the. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun. The definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that the noun phrase it ...

A word used before a noun to indicate a species or genus: as, the song of the nightingale: used in generalization: as, the man that hath no music in himself.

Articles are used before nouns or noun equivalents and are a type of adjective. The definite article (the) is used before a noun to indicate that the identity ...

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