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  Argus

  noun

  a giant with 100 eyes, set to guard the heifer Io: his eyes were transferred after his death to the peacock's tail.
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  argus

  noun

  any of various brown butterflies, esp the Scotch argus ( Erebia aethiops ) found on moorland and in forests up to a height of 2000 m

Argus

American  

[ahr-guhs] / ˈɑr gəs /

noun

1. Classical Mythology. a giant with 100 eyes, set to guard the heifer Io: his eyes were transferred after his death to the peacock's tail.

2. a son of Phrixus and builder of the Argo.

3. (in theOdyssey ) Odysseus' faithful dog, who recognized his master after twenty years and immediately died.

4. any observant or vigilant person; a watchful guardian.

5. (lowercase) Also argus pheasant any of several brilliantly marked Malayan pheasants of the Argusianus or Rheinardia genera.

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Argus ¹ British  

/ ˈɑːɡəs /

noun

1. Greek myth a giant with a hundred eyes who was made guardian of the heifer Io. After he was killed by Hermes his eyes were transferred to the peacock's tail

2. a vigilant person; guardian

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argus ² British  

/ ˈɑːɡəs /

noun

1. any of various brown butterflies, esp the Scotch argus ( Erebia aethiops ) found on moorland and in forests up to a height of 2000 m

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Argus Cultural  

1. A creature in classical mythology who had a hundred eyes. Hera set him to watch over Io, a girl who had been seduced by Zeus and then turned into a cow; with Argus on guard, Zeus could not come to rescue Io, for only some of Argus' eyes would be closed in sleep at any one time. Hermes, working on Zeus' behalf, played music that put all the eyes to sleep and then killed Argus. Hera put his eyes in the tail of the peacock.

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Etymology

Origin of Argus

< Latin < Greek Árgos, derivative of argós bright, shining

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“Europe is on track to enter winter with its lowest gas storage buffer since the 2022 energy crisis,” said Natasha Fielding, head of gas and LNG pricing at Argus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Some tankers could take more than one month to reach Europe after the route reopens, according to Argus Media analysts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Shortly before the war, a ton of SAF cost about $1,500 more to buy than a ton of traditional jet fuel, according to data from commodities pricing agency Argus Media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

In a previous interview with the Sports Argus, Dougan said finding a different sponsor for every home match was "hopelessly time-consuming".

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

Argus rolled his eyes in disgust, which looked pretty psychedelic since it made his whole body swirl.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

Butterfly Conservation said it was the worst year recorded for the common blue, holly blue, green-veined white, small white, small tortoiseshell, painted lady and Scotch argus.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2024

They might have been confused for, say, ambitious bird watchers looking for a glimpse of the great argus.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2021

Known taxonomically as Channa argus or "lightning perch," they were purported to be able to "walk" on land, to wipe out native species and to have no natural predators.

From Scientific American ● May 30, 2013

Darwin was acutely aware of this and admired the modelling of the ocelli on the argus pheasant tail feathers as "more like a work of art than of nature".

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2012

There's no other meaning to those great buildings whose argus eyes gleam to-night in the shadows among the stars.

From The Root of Evil by Dixon, Thomas