Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: argentine
IPA transcription: ['ɑɹdʒənt,in]
Pronunciations of argentine
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Argentine, Argentinian
    Meaning: of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people; "Argentinian tango"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: argentine
    Meaning: any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes
Usage examples
  • He didn't look particularly regal, even on that high seat--with his ruddy outdoorsman's face and his ragged gray mustache and his old tweed coat spotted with pipe-ashes, he might have been any of the dozen-odd country-gentleman neighbors of von Schlichten's boyhood in the Argentine.
  • In addition to valuable investigations of fossil-bearing beds in the Argentine, he made some excellent general suggestions, such as that the pithecoid apes, like the baboons, do not stand in the line of man's ancestral stem but represent a divergence from it away from humanity and toward a retrogressive bestialization.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Aleph (short story), License CC BY-SA 4.0