Meaning of Argentine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A citizen or descendant abroad of Argentina.
2. Argentina.
   archaic, with-definite-article
3. Any osmeriform fish of the genus Argentina, especially a European argentine (Argentina sphyraena).
   countable, uncountable
4. Ellipsis of Argentine tango.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
5. Strasbourg (city in France).
   obsolete
6. A siliceous variety of calcite, or lime carbonate, having a silvery-white, pearly lustre, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
   countable, uncountable
7. A current place name:
8. A neighbourhood of Kansas City, Kansas, named after a silver smeltery.
9. White metal coated with silver.
   countable, uncountable
10. A township and census-designated place therein, in Genesee County, Michigan.
11. A township in Fall River County, South Dakota.
12. A commune in Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

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Examples

“"Rich as an Argentine" was a phrase my Brooklyn grandfather often repeated to my bewilderment.”

“The first inuenter thereof (as most agree) is thought to be a Germaine, dwellyng first in Argentine, afterward Citizen of Mentz, named John Faustus, a goldsmith.”

“[…] and the Ambassadour for the Citie of Argentine was not suffered to sit in the Councell, because that Cittie had disanulled the Masse.”

“[…] they deemed no remedy more commodious, effectuall, and opportune, than if his Holines, by the Emperours consent, would call a godly, free, and Christian Councell, so soone as it were possible, in some conuenient place in Germanie; that is, in Argentine, in Mentz, Collen, or Metz, […]”

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