argentine

adj

1. Containing or resembling silver.

   “Celestiall Dian, Goddesse Argentine”

2. (not-comparable)Of, from, or pertaining to Argentina or its people.

   “Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Any osmeriform fish of the genus Argentina, especially a European argentine (Argentina sphyraena).
2. (countable, uncountable)A siliceous variety of calcite, or lime carbonate, having a silvery-white, pearly lustre, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
3. (countable, uncountable)White metal coated with silver.
4. A citizen or descendant abroad of Argentina.

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

5. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Argentine tango.

name

1. (archaic, with-definite-article)Argentina.

   “Returning to California he then went to work for the P. G. & E. Company as storekeeper in San Jose and remained with the concern until 1904, which year he started on a trip that occupied his time for over one year and took him to the important centers of Europe and throughout South America, where he visited an uncle in the Argentine.”

2. (obsolete)Strasbourg (city in France).

   “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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