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zero articles

zero articles is the plural of zero article.

Meaning of zero article

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

Questions about zero articles

What is zero articles the plural of?
Zero articles is the plural of zero article.

Words near zero articles in the dictionary

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

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