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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Nautical A large merchant ship.
  2. n. Nautical A fleet of ships.
  3. n. A rich source or supply: an argosy of adventure lore.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A large merchant vessel, especially one carrying a rich freight. Furthermore, how acceptable a thing this may be to the Ragusyes, Hulks. Caravels, and other foreign rich laden ships passing within or by any of the sea-limits of Her M.'s royalty.
  2. n. A fleet of ships.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A merchant ship.
  2. n. A merchant flotilla, fleet.
  3. n. Popular anglicism of the Argonautika of Apollonios Rhodios.
  4. n. A collection of lore.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. one or more large merchant ships

Etymologies

  1. Alteration of Italian ragusea ("a large ship"), after the maritime city of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik. (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration of obsolete ragusye, from Italian ragusea, vessel of Ragusa (Dubrovnik). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “A broadening of meaning and another shift in spelling gave us "argosy," denoting any merchant vessel or rich store.”

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  • “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.”

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  • bilby
    We are the deathless dreamers of the world.
    Errant and sad, our argosies must go
    On barren quests and all the winds that blow
    Lure us to battle where tall seas are hurled.
    - Walter Adolphe Roberts, 'The Dreamers'. Sep 23, 2009

  • madmouth see argonaut also Apr 11, 2009

  • yarb ...this grand argosy we towed heavily forged along, as if laden with piglead in bulk.

    - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 64 Jul 25, 2008

  • chained_bear Usage note on poop. No, really. Mar 16, 2008

  • sionnach a large merchant ship. Word derives from the port city of Ragusa, on the Adriatic (now Dubrovnik) Feb 26, 2007

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