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zero article

zero article noun: the non-appearance of an article before a noun.

Noun

zero article (plural zero articles)

  1. The non-appearance of an article before a noun.
    • The zero article is the oddball of the English article system. For one thing, it's a newcomer. […] The book argues that the zero article is an artifact of the structural paradigm of language research that has outlived the heyday of the theory that has spawned it and remains in use merely as a fig...2011, Leszek Berezowski, “Introduction”, in The Myth of the Zero Article, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

Forms of zero article

pluralzero articles

Questions about zero article

What does zero article mean?
Zero article means the non-appearance of an article before a noun.
What part of speech is zero article?
Zero article is a noun.
What is the plural of zero article?
The plural of zero article is zero articles.

Words near zero article in the dictionary

  1. Zermeno
  2. Zermenos
  3. Zern
  4. zero
  5. zero air
  6. zero article
  7. zero articles
  8. zero balancing
  9. zero blitz
  10. zero blitzes
  11. zero bomb

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