• (RP) IPA: /ˈɑːdʒənt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɑɹdʒənt/

argent

1. (archaic) The metal silver.
2. (tincture) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

    

   • 1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry

     The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".

3. (obsolete, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women

     The polish'd argent of her breast.

• French: argent
• German: Silber
• Italian: argento
• Portuguese: prata
• Russian: серебро́
• Spanish: plata

argent (not comparable)

1. Of silver or silver-coloured.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019 ↗, lines 49–50, page 5 ↗:

     Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why {{smallcaps

2. (tincture): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

• blanc, silver

• Portuguese: prata, prateado, argento, argênteo

• French: argent
• German: silbern
• Italian: argento
• Portuguese: branco, prata
• Russian: серебри́стый
• Spanish: plata (blanco)

• Ag (chemical symbol for silver)