• AHR-guh-see • noun
1 : a large ship; especially : a large merchant ship
2 : a rich supply
[Ro] vas mare comercial, navă, flotă, corabie, vas; un stoc bogat
Example sentence:
Uncle Ken is always armed with an argosy of jokes, and he keeps the family entertained for hours.
Unchiul Ken este întotdeauna înarmat cu o mulţime de glume, şi poate să distreze familia ore întregi.
Looking at the first sense of argosy, you might assume that this word is a close relative of argonaut, but that isn’t the case. Although both words have a nautical sense, they have different etymologies. The original argonauts sailed on a ship called the Argo to seek the Golden Fleece; their moniker combines the name of their ship and the Greek word nautēs, meaning sailor. Argosy comes from Ragusa, the Italian name for the city that is now Dubrovnik, Croatia. Over time, Ragusa was modified into ragusea, a noun for the laden merchant ships that sailed from that port in medieval days. A broadening of meaning and another shift in spelling gave us argosy, denoting any merchant vessel or rich store.
