Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ARGONAUT

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Definitions of ARGONAUT

1. Any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
2. An adventurer on a dangerous but rewarding quest.
3. Any of several ships and submarines of the British and US navies.
4. (specifically, historical) A 49er, a person who took part in the California Gold Rush of 1849.
5. (Greek mythology) One of the members of the Argo who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece.
6. (Canadian football) A team member for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.
7. Alternative letter-case form of argonaut.

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Examples of Using ARGONAUT in a Sentence

• The central character in Homer's Iliad, he was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia and famous Argonaut.
• Hewitt's first broadcast likely was February 16, of a game between the Toronto Argonaut Rowing Club and the Kitchener Greenshirts.
• Argonaut Resources, Australian mining company drilling for minerals at Lake Torrens, South Australia.
• Caeneus' father was the Lapith king Elatus from Gyrton in Thessaly, and his son was the Argonaut Coronus, who was killed by Heracles while leading a war against the Dorians and their king Aegimius.
• Autolycus' other daughter was Polymede, mother of Jason, the famous Argonaut who led a group of men to find the coveted Golden Fleece.
• The first nuclear submarine lost at sea, Thresher was also the third of four submarines lost with more than 100 people aboard, the others being the French Surcouf, sinking with 130 personnel in 1942, USS Argonaut, lost with 102 aboard in 1943, and Russian Kursk, which sank with 118 aboard in 2000.
• The first game in the series, developed by Nintendo EAD and programmed by Argonaut Software, uses the Super FX Chip to create the first hardware-accelerated 3D gaming experience on a home console.
• The development team, led by Shigeru Miyamoto, redesigned what had been a tech demo into a rail shooter, from Nintendo designing the game and Argonaut handling the programming aspects.
• Argonaut was in poor condition however, with only one of her four diesel engines in working condition, her electrical generator unusable and the boat was leaking.
• Argonaut also appeared as a German World War I U-boat in the post-Code 1931 film Suicide Fleet, about three US Navy sailors on a schooner submarine decoy Q-ship and their liberty adventures pursuing a beautiful Coney Island concessionaire.
• June 24 – The BOAC Canadair C-4 Argonaut G-ALHE strikes a tree and crashes on departure from Kano Airport in Kano, Nigeria, killing 32 of the 45 people on board.
• Following Iceland's declaration of a 200-mile fishing limit, Argonaut carried out fishery protection duties for British fishing trawlers inside the zone, in what became known as the "Second Cod War".
• Originally from Gerenia, Nestor was an Argonaut, helped to fight the centaurs, and also participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar.
• Experiments by pioneering marine biologist Jeanne Villepreux-Power in the early 19th century disproved this hypothesis, as Villepreux-Power successfully reared argonaut young and observed their shells' development.
• Argonauta argo, also known as the greater argonaut, is a species of pelagic octopus belonging to the genus Argonauta.
• He travels on his boat the Argonaut and outmaneuvers villains, salvages everything from a bicycle to a nuclear missile, rescues children trapped in a flooded cave, and other such adventures.
• Pixley introduced him to the 20-year-old Yda Hillis Addis, a new writer at Pixley's San Francisco journal The Argonaut.
• The Iphigenia Nubiana and North West America were to join the Argonaut and Princess Royal at Nootka Sound.
• One of the first UK uses of the data recovered from an aircraft accident was that recovered from the Royston "Midas" data recorder that was on board the British Midland Argonaut involved in the Stockport Air Disaster in 1967.
• In 1990, Argonaut collaborated with Nintendo during the early years of the NES and SNES, a notable incident being when Argonaut submitted a proof-of-concept method of defeating the Game Boy's copyright protection mechanism to Nintendo.

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