Argentina

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• A country of southeast South America stretching about 3,700 km (2,300 mi) from its border with Bolivia to southern Tierra del Fuego. The region was sparsely populated by indigenous peoples before the Spanish founded settlements there in the early 1500s. In 1776 Spain established a viceroyalty in present-day Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Argentina achieved its independence from Spain in 1816. Buenos Aires is the capital and the largest city.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A genus of malacopterygian fishes, giving name to the family Argentinidœ: so called from their silvery scales. A. sphyrœna, of European waters, is the type.
• noun [lowercase] A name given to unglazed porcelain, coated with gold, silver, or copper by a process similar to that of electroplating.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun a country in South America, bordering Chile and Bolivia.
• noun type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Argentinidae — herring smelts.
• proper noun A taxonomic genus within the subfamily Rosoideae — silverweeds.
• proper noun A country in South America, called officially The Argentine Republic. Capital: Buenos Aires.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines
• noun a republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America