Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or resembling silver; silvery.
- noun Silver.
- noun Any of various silvery metals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Metallic tin in a state of fine subdivision, precipitated by zinc from a dilute solution of a tin salt: used for tinplating and for printing upon paper and cloth.
- noun A gold coin of the Argentine Republic, equivalent to $4.824.
- Pertaining to or resembling silver; silvery; argent.
- [capitalized] Of or pertaining to the Rio de la Plata (Sp. plata, silver), the estuary of the rivers Paraná and Uruguay in South America, or the country called from it the Argentine Republic or Confederation, or Argentina.
- noun A silvery-white slaty variety of calcite, containing a little silica with laminæ usually undulated, found in primitive rocks and frequently in metallic veins.
- noun The tetroxid or antimoniate of antimony.
- noun The silvery coloring matter of the scales of fishes.
- noun A fish of the family Scopelidœ or Maurolicidœ.
- noun White metal coated with silver.
- noun [capitalized] A citizen or an inhabitant of the Argentine Republic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America.
- noun (Min.) A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
- noun White metal coated with silver.
- noun (Zoöl.) A fish of Europe (
Maurolicus Pennantii ) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina. - noun A citizen of the Argentine Republic; an Argentinian.
- noun
Argentina ; in this sense, usually preceded by the.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Containing or resembling
silver . - noun Any
osmeriform fish of the genusArgentina , especially the European argentine, Argentina sphyraena.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word argentine.
Examples
-
Yes | No | Report from matt wasson wrote 5 weeks 4 days ago we went yesterday ... 3 inches at lobdell lake in argentine, mi cought 2 fish and a great time eatng in the shanty!
Ice is on 2010
-
All Replies from matt wasson wrote 5 weeks 4 days ago we went yesterday ... 3 inches at lobdell lake in argentine, mi cought 2 fish and a great time eatng in the shanty!
Ice is on 2010
-
Finely scaly varieties with a pearly lustre are known as argentine and aphrite (German _Schaumspath_); soft, earthy and dull white varieties as agaric mineral, rock-milk, rock-meal, &c. -- these form a transition to marls, chalk, &c.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
-
It begins in sufficiently startling fashion; a single gentleman of easy fortune and amiable disposition, putting his latchkey in the door of his chambers one night, is touched and accosted by an interesting young person with an "argentine" voice.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
-
A visibly ailing Bogart plays Eddie Willis, a down and out sportswriter hired by mobster Nick Benko (Rod Steiger) to promote an argentine contender.
Night Flights, January 2010 Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews 2010
-
Would be quite funny. at the time it was said that it was bottled up in port as the argentine navy was afaird it would be sunk as soon as it left port.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war? 2010
-
Is there a significant difference between an argentine and a Guatemalan?
Life of the Party: Latin Flair in Washington - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
-
I guess we know how Sanford will spend the fourth of July - by himself, lighting off "argentine firecrackers" (in his memory).
-
The argentine Mausers are prized they were not many made.
I am tying to find out information about a argentino 1909 serial number g0442. 2010
-
The argentine Mausers are prized they were not many made.
I am tying to find out information about a argentino 1909 serial number g0442. 2010
vanishedone commented on the word argentine
Is this a WeirdNet strike, or does the word 'Argentine' suggest fish to you?
January 12, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word argentine
and gathered and fled through the air to the head of Percivale,
flew and flamed and flushed the argentine column.
—Charles Williams, 'The Last Voyage', in Taliessin Through Logres
I don't think I've seen this used before to mean "argent".
March 22, 2009