1. Count noun ‘syntactically unmarked but semantically connected Asyndeta’

2. The is called the definite Article because it usually precedes a specific or previously mentioned noun; a and an are called indefinite Articles because they are used to refer to something in a less specific manner (an unspecified count noun)

3. ‘The Consolation for the visiting support, however, was that after half-an-hour their team had at last posed a threat to the home defence.’ 1.2 British count noun (in sport) a goal scored at a point when it is no longer possible for the scoring team to win.