Argentine
['ɑːdʒ(ə)ntaɪn] or ['ɑrdʒən,taɪn]
Definition
(noun.) any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes.
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people; 'Argentinian tango' .
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Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America.
(n.) A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
(n.) White metal coated with silver.
(n.) A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.
(n.) A citizen of the Argentine Republic.
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Examples
- Closing tarred Russian hemp cable, 15-3/4 inch circumference, for Argentine Battleship Rivadavia. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Another heading was Argentine, another Costa Rica, and another San Paulo, each with pages of signs and figures after it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Basque newspapers have been published in the Argentine and in the United States to supply groups of prosperous emigrants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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