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argentine

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Adjective, Noun
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Ar=gen=tine

CIDE DICTIONARY

argentinea. 
  •  Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery.  [1913 Webster]
    "Celestial Dian, goddess argentine."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America.  [1913 Webster]
argentinen. [Cf. F. argentin, fr. L. argentum silver.].
  •  A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.  [1913 Webster]
  •  White metal coated with silver.  Simmonds.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A citizen of the Argentine Republic; an Argentinian.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Argentina; in this sense, usually preceded by the.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

argentine, adj. & n. (also Argentinian)
--adj. of or relating to Argentina in S. America.
--n.
1 a native or national of Argentina.
2 a person of Argentine descent.

Idiom
the Argentine Argentina.
Etymology
Sp. Argentina (as ARGENTINE)
argentine, adj. of silver; silvery.

Etymology
F argentin f. argent silver

ROGET THESAURUS

argentine

Whiteness

N whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead, white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory.


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