Argo
pronunciation
How to pronounce Argo in British English:
UK [ˈɑ:ɡəu]
How to pronounce Argo in American English:
US [ˈɑrˌɡo]
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- Noun:
- formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross; now divided into Carina and Pyxis and Puppis and Vela
Word Origin
- Argo
- name of the ship in which Jason and his companions sought the Fleece in Colchis, in Greek, literally "The Swift," from argos "swift" (adj.), an epithet, literally "shining, bright" (see argent; compare also Sanskrit cognate rjrah "shining, glowing, bright," also "swift"), "because all swift motion causes a kind of glancing or flickering light" [Liddell & Scott].
Example
- 1. Released last october , ' argo ' tackled it head on .
- 2. Should it take home the best picture prize , ' argo ' would be the first winner without a nomination for its director since ' driving miss daisy ' in 1990 .
- 3. The temperature and salinity distributions , and the water mass structures in northwest pacific ocean are studied using the temperature and salinity data obtained by argo profiling floats .
- 4. Unless you sold the argo 's treasure twice .
- 5. The material available on argo city was skimpy suspiciously skimpy .