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Alternative forms
:arg. or a. in heraldic contexts.

Etymology
From L. argentum "white money", "silver", via F. argent.

Pronunciation
italbrac|RP IPA|/���d��nt/
italbrac|US IPA|/��ɹd��nt/
audio|en-us-argent.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
argent

1. the metal silver.
2. tincture: the white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

#:<table><tr><td>argent colour: &nbsp;</td><td bgcolor"#848482" width"80">&nbsp; </td></tr></table>
#:* 1909: The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent". &mdash; Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry

Translations
trans-top|silver or metal tincture
Afrikaans: silwer
Albanian: argjent
Arabic: ARchar|�ضة unicode|(fé��a) f
Armenian: Õ¡Ö�Õ®Õ¡Õ© (artzat)
Basque: zilarra
Belarusian: �е�аб�о (serabró) n
Bosnian: srebro#Bosnian|srebro n
Breton: arc'hant m
Bulgarian: ��еб�о (srebro) n
Catalan: plata f, argent m
Chinese Characters: �
Chinese: � / � (yín)
Cornish: arhans
Croatian: srebro#Croatian|srebro n
Czech: st�íbro
Danish: sølv
Dutch: zilver n
Esperanto: ar�ento
Estonian: hõbe
Faroese: silvur
Finnish: hopea
French: argent m
Frisian: sulver
Friulian: arint
Galician: prata
Georgian: ������� (vertsxli)
German: Silber n
Greek: α�ημί (asimí) n, α�ημένιο (asiményo) n, α�γ��� (arghiró) n
Guaraní: itatĩ
Hebrew: �סף|�ֶּסֶף (késef)
Hindi: �ा�द� (ch�.ndī)
Hungarian: ezüst
Icelandic: silfur
Indonesian: perak
Interlingua: argento
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Irish Gaelic: airgead
Italian: argento m
Japanese: � (gin)
Kazakh: RUchar|күм�� (kümis)
Latin: argentum
Latvian: sudrabs
Lithuanian: sidabras
Luxembourgish: sëlwer
Macedonian: ��еб�о (srebro) n
Malay: argentum
Maltese: fidda
Manx: argid
Mongolian: RUchar|мөнгө (möngö)
Norwegian: sølv
Polish: srebro n
Portuguese: prata f
Romanian: argint n
Russian: �е�еб�о (serebró) n, а�ген��м (argéntum) m
Scottish Gaelic: airgead
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: ��еб�о#Serbian|��еб�о n
:Latin: srebro#Serbian|srebro n
Slovak: striebro n
Slovene: srebro#Slovene|srebro
Spanish: plata f
Tupinambá: itatinga
Swedish: silver
Tajik: nukra
Thai: THchar|��ิ�
Turkish: gümü�
Ukrainian: ���бло (sriblo) n
Uzbek: к�м�� (kumuš)
Vietnamese: bạc
Welsh: arian
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Adjective
argent

1. of silver or silver-coloured.
2. tincture: of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

#:* 1889: ...when the shield is argent, it is shown in an engraving by being left plain. &mdash; Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry

Synonyms
blanc, silver

Translations
trans-top|of silver or silver coloured
Bosnian: srebrna#Bosnian|srebrna f, srebrnasta#Bosnian|srebrnasta f
Croatian: srebrna#Croatian|srebrna f, srebrnasta#Croatian|srebrnasta f
Finnish: hopeinen
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Serbian:
:Cyrillic: ��еб�на#Serbian|��еб�на f, ��еб�на��а#Serbian|��еб�на��а f
:Latin: srebrna#Serbian|srebrna f, srebrnasta#Serbian|srebrnasta f
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trans-top|of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms
Bosnian: srebrna#Bosnian|srebrna f
Croatian: srebrna#Croatian|srebrna f
Dutch: zilver
Finnish: hopeinen, hopeanvärinen
French: argent
German: silbern
Hungarian: ezüst
Italian: argento
Polish: srebrny
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Portuguese: branco, prata
Romanian: argintiu
Russian: �е�еб�и���й
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: ��еб�на#Serbian|��еб�на f
:Latin: srebrna#Serbian|srebrna f
Slovak: strieborná
Spanish: plata (blanco)
Swedish: silver
Welsh gwynn
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Derived terms
argentic
argentiferous
argentine
argentite
argentum nitricum

Related terms
Ag (chemical symbol for silver)

See also
Wiktionary_Appendix:Colours|Appendix:Colours

Quotations
1667: Those argent Fields more likely habitants, / Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold / Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde &mdash; John Milton, Paradise Lost
1733: Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove? &mdash; Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
1817: she did soar / So passionately bright, my dazzled soul / Commingling with her argent spheres did roll / Through clear and cloudy &mdash; John Keats, Endymion
1817: Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize / One thought beyond thine argent luxuries! &mdash; John Keats, Endymion
1818: Two wings this orb / Possess'd for glory, two fair argent wings &mdash; John Keats, Hyperion
1819: At length burst in the argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain &mdash; John Keats, The Eve of St Agnes
1891:"A castle argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly. &mdash; Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1922: Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled argent, honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country. &mdash; James Joyce, Ulysses
1922: Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field argent displayed. &mdash; James Joyce, Ulysses
1967: Argent I craft you as the star / Of flower-shut evening &mdash; John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets

Category:Colors
Category:Greys

French

Pronunciation
IPA: IPAchar|/a�.���/

Noun
argent m (plural: argents)

1. money
2. silver
3. argent (white in heraldry)

Related terms
argenté
argenter
argenterie
argentier
argentifère
argentin
Argentine
argenture

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