Argosy
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Argosy, as used by Shakespeare (e.g., in King Henry VI, Part 3, Act 2, Scene VI; in the Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene III; and in the Taming of the Shrew, Act 2, Scene I), means a flotilla of merchant ships. It is derived from the 16th century name Ragusa, now Dubrovnik, in Croatia, a major shipping power of the day and entered the language through the Italian "ragusea," meaning a Ragusan ship. The word bears no relation to the ship Argo from Greek mythology (Jason and the Argonauts). Since "argosy" and "odyssey" sound alike and both refer to ships or voyage by ship ("odyssey" refers to Odysseus the traveller, not to his ship, which goes unnamed in Homer's Odyssey), occasionally "argosy" is misused as a synonym for "odyssey," namely as an adventure. The 1940s adventure magazine Argosy fixed that association in many minds. [source: Merriam-Webster Online: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/argosy]
- Argosy (magazine), an American pulp magazine
- Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, a 1920s British airliner
- Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy, a late 1950s British civilan cargo aircraft
- Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy, a 1960s British military transport aircraft
- Argosy Special Operations, an elite branch of the Systems Commonwealth's High Guard from the science fiction television series Andromeda.
- a 1970s brand of travel trailer and recreational vehicle created by the Airstream Company
- Argosy Gaming Company
- Argosy University, American 13-campus system
- a class of gunboat/light freighter in the PC/Mac game Escape Velocity Nova
- Argosy Console, Inc., a manufacturer of studio furniture.
- The Argosy, the independent student journal of Mount Allison University.
- The Argosy, a Public house in Cardonald, Glasgow.
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