Argosy Definition

ärgə-sē
argosies
noun
A large merchant ship.
American Heritage
A large ship, esp. a merchant ship.
Webster's New World
A fleet of ships.
American Heritage
A fleet of such ships.
Webster's New World
A rich source or supply.
An argosy of adventure lore.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
pronoun

Popular anglicism of the Argonautika of Apollonios Rhodios.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Argosy

Noun

Singular:
argosy
Plural:
argosies

Origin of Argosy

  • Alteration of Italian ragusea (“a large ship”), after the maritime city of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik.

    From Wiktionary

  • Alteration of obsolete ragusye from Italian ragusea vessel of Ragusa (Dubrovnik)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Argosy Sentence Examples

  • To play real historic district argosy earlier this year has kept its.

  • In the 1970s, Airstream branched out into a new Class A designed motor home called Argosy.

  • The English language retains in the word "argosy" a reminiscence of the carracks of Ragusa, long known to Englishmen as Argouse, Argusa or Aragosa.

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Words Starting With

AARARG

Words Ending With

YSYOSY

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Words Starting With A and Ending With Y

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