ARGONAUTS

"ARGONAUTS" is a plural of: argonaut.

Date "ARGONAUTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definition: ARGONAUTS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Argonauts The sailors of the ship Argo. Apollonios of Rhodes wrote an epic poem on the subject. (Greek, argonaus.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Argonauts

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes, before the Trojan War, who accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest for the Golden Fleece. They sailed the ship the Argo, hence their name, which literally means "Sailors of the Argo". They were sometimes called Minyans because Jason came from Minya.

The ship was named after its builder, Argus, son of Phrixus.

Pelias, king of Iocus in Thessaly, had been warned to be on his guard against a man with one shoe, and seeing his nephew Jason one day with only one sandal (the other having been lost in crossing a stream), he bade him to go and fetch the Golden Fleece, hoping that he would be killed in the attempt.

Jason was accompanied by some of the principle heroes of ancient Greece. The number of Argonauts vary but usually number 40-55 people total - traditionally there were 50. The Argonauts were: (Jason and Medea are sometimes not counted)

Acastus
Aethalides
Ascalaphus
Atalanta (others claim Jason forbid her because she was a woman)
Autolycus
Calais
Castor
Echion
Euphemus
Euryalus
Heracles
Hylas
Idas
Idmon
Jason
Laertes
Lynceus
Meleager
Oileus
Orpheus
Peleus
Poeas
Polydeuces
Polyphemus
Poriclymenus
Telamon
Theseus
Tiphys
Zetes

See Jason for more details on the quest for the Golden Fleece.

Crosswords: ARGONAUTS

English words defined with "ARGONAUTS": Argonautic ♦ Golden Fleece ♦ Jason. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ARGONAUTS": Knights of the Shell ♦ Man of Brass, Mede'a. (references)

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Modern Usage: ARGONAUTS

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts (Birdhouse in Your Soul; performing artist: They Might Be Giants)
Movie/TV Titles	Jason and the Argonauts (1963) The Argonauts of California - 1849 (1916) Jason and the Argonauts (2000)
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Commercial Usage: ARGONAUTS

Domain	Title
Books	Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautika: The Story of Jason and the Argonauts [ABRIDGED] [UNABRIDGED] (reference) Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea: Volume Two, Bronislaw Malinowski: Selected Works (reference) The Argonauts of 'forty-nine : some recollections of the plains and the diggings (reference) Antarctic Eyewitness: Charles F. Faseron's South With Mawson and Frank Hurley's Shackleton's Argonauts (reference) Beyond the Edge of the Sea: Sailing With Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and Other Explorers of the Ancient World (Modern Library pape (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Jason & The Argonauts (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Photo Album: ARGONAUTS

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	Great, great grandson of the argonauts. Credit: Library of Congress.		The modern argonauts with their golden "fleece". Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: ARGONAUTS

"ARGONAUTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "ARGONAUTS" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	75%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	25%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Misspellings: ARGONAUTS

Misspellings
	"ARGONAUTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afronauts, argonath. (additional references)
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Rhyming with "ARGONAUTS"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ARGONAUTS" (pronounced Ä"rgunô'ts)
5	-u n ô' t s	astronauts, cosmonauts.
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Anagrams: ARGONAUTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-g-n-o-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: argonaut.
	-2 letters: angoras, nougats, ourangs, outrang, outsang, ragouts, saguaro, santour.
	-3 letters: agoras, angora, aortas, argons, argots, gators, grants, groans, groats, grouts, grunts, guanos, nougat, orangs, organa, organs, ourang, outgas, outran, ragout, ratans, ruanas, rugosa, sangar, santur, sarong, satang, sonata, strang, strong, strung, tangos, tongas, tragus, tronas.
	-4 letters: agars, agons, agora, angas, angst, anoas, antas.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-g-n-o-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: guarantors, orangutans.
	+2 letters: graduations, granulators, outbargains.
	+3 letters: gastrulation, granulations, gratulations, inaugurators, nongraduates, sugarcoating.
	+4 letters: agranulocytes, cartilaginous, coastguardman, coastguardmen, congratulates, gastrulations, granulomatous, inaugurations, postinaugural, strangulation.
	+5 letters: anthropophagus, argumentations, coastguardsman, coastguardsmen, congratulators, degranulations, gastroduodenal, oversaturating, postgraduation, protolanguages, strangulations, triangulations, vulgarizations.
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