English noun: argonaut | |||
1. | argonaut (person) someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure | ||
Broader (hypernym) | adventurer, venturer | ||
2. | Argonaut (person) (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece | ||
Instance hypernym | character, fictional character, fictitious character | ||
Domain category | Greek mythology | ||
3. | Argonaut (animal) cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells | ||
Synonyms | Argonauta argo, nautilus, paper nautilus | ||
Broader (hypernym) | octopod | ||
Member meronym | Argonauta, genus Argonauta | ||