English Explanatory Dictionary

argosy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A merchant ship.
  2. A merchant flotilla, fleet.
  3. An abundant supply, boatload.
name
  1. Popular anglicism of the Argonautika of Apollonios Rhodios.

Word forms

argosy argosies

Etymology

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

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