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# argent

«argent» in Mova's school dictionary: **The colour silver or white on a coat of arms or shield** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (argent — uncountable); adjective (argent)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (heraldry) The colour silver or white on a coat of arms or shield. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/argent/#m1)

2) (old-fashioned, poetic) Silver, or silvery in colour: «the argent moon». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/argent/#m2)

3) (French) «Argent» in French means «silver» and also «money»; it is pronounced differently («ar-ZHAHN»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/argent/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

You meet «argent» in history lessons about knights and coats of arms, where colours have special names (gules = red, azure = blue, or = gold, argent = silver). In chemistry, silver's symbol Ag comes from Latin «argentum». Argentina's name also comes from this word.

### examples

- The knight's shield was argent with a red cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/argent/#x1)
- In heraldry, argent means silver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/argent/#x2)
- The poet wrote of the argent light of the stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/argent/#x3)
- Silver's symbol is Ag, from Latin argentum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/argent/#x4)
- Argentina was named after the Latin word for silver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/argent/#x5)
- In French, «argent» also means money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/argent/#x6)

### note

In English say «AR-jent». In French it means both «silver» and «money» — a false friend: in English it never means money. Mostly found in heraldry and poems.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «argent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/argent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.