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argent

Syllables: ar·gentUK/ˈɑːdʒənt//ˈɑɹd͡ʒənt/

argent noun: the metal silver.

Noun

argent (countable and uncountable, plural argents)

  1. (archaic) The metal silver.
  2. The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
    • The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry
  3. (archaic, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
    • The polish'd argent of her breast.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
  4. A moth of the genus Argyresthia.

Adjective

argent (not comparable)

  1. Of silver or silver-coloured.
    • Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are leſs than Jove?1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 5, lines 49–50
  2. Of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
    • ... when the shield is argent, it is shown in an engraving by being left plain.1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
    • The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480

Proper noun capitalized: Argent

Argent

  1. A surname.

argent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

argent in Hindi

silver or metal tincture
चांदी cāndī

argent in Tamil

வெள்ளி, வெண்பொன்நிறம், வெள்ளி நிறமான, வெண்மையான, பணம்

argent in Urdu

silver or metal tincture
چاندی cāndī

argent in Malayalam

വെള്ളി, വെള്ളിയെസംബന്ധിച്ച, വെള്ളിപോലെ യുള്ള
More languagesFewer languages
argent in Tagalog
pilak
argent in Arabic
فِضَّة fiḍḍa
argent in Malay
argentum, perak
argent in Indonesian
perak
argent in Thai
เงิน ngən
argent in Vietnamese
bạc

Examples of argent in a sentence

  • The Duke's arms were a sable gryphon rampant on an argent field.
  • The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.
  • Crest. - On a heart the Holy Dove displayed, argent, radiated or.

All 36 example sentences with argent

Synonyms of argent

Forms of argent

pluralargents
alternative formarg.
alternative forma.

Plural of argent: argents

Origin of argent

From Middle English argent, from Old French argent m (“silver”), from Latin argentum n (“white money, silver”).

Words formed from argent

Words that rhyme with argent

Questions about argent

What does argent mean?
Argent means the metal silver.
What is argent in Hindi?
Argent in Hindi is चांदी (cāndī). See Argent meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is argent?
Argent can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce argent?
Argent is pronounced /ˈɑːdʒənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of argent?
The plural of argent is argents.

Words near argent in the dictionary

  1. Argelès-sur-Mer
  2. argemone
  3. argemones
  4. argemonine
  5. argenine
  6. argent
  7. Argenta
  8. argentaffin
  9. argentaffinoma
  10. argentaffinomas
  11. argentaffins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: argent (page history and authors); Argent (page history and authors); argent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); argent (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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