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Meaning 1
Popular anglicism of the Argonautika of Apollonios Rhodios.
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Standard Lemma guide
argosy
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CMU ARPABET: AA1 R G AH0 S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A merchant ship.
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noun
Meaning 3
A merchant flotilla, fleet.
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noun
Meaning 4
An abundant supply, boatload.
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noun
Meaning 5
one or more large merchant ships
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fleet
History
Etymology
Alteration of Italian ragusea (“a large ship”), after the maritime city of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik.
Across languages
Translations
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Russian: торговое судно (torgovoje) — merchant ship
- Russian: храни́лище — abundant supply
- Russian: сокро́вищница — abundant supply