different between juggernaut vs argonaut

English

Etymology

(17th century) From Hindustani Hindi ??????? (jagann?th)/Oriya ??????? (jôgônnathô)/ Urdu ???????? (jagann?th), from Sanskrit ??????? (jagann?tha, “lord of the universe”) (Jagannath), a title for the Hindu deity Vishnu's avatar Krishna. English form influenced by suffix -naut (“sailor”). Doublet of Jagannath.

From British colonial era in India, witnessing the Rath Yatra (chariot parade) at Puri, Orissa. The festival features a huge annual procession, with a wagon of the idol of Lord Krishna. Pulled with ropes by hundreds of devotees, the wagon develops considerable momentum and becomes unstoppable.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??.??.n??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??.??.n?t/

Noun

juggernaut (plural juggernauts)

1. A literal or metaphorical force or object regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.
2. (Britain, sometimes derogatory) A large, cumbersome truck or lorry, especially an artic.
3. An institution that incites destructive devotion or to which people are carelessly sacrificed.

Quotations

• 1895— H. G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance, ch XII

  Anon Mr. Hoopdriver found himself riding out of the darkness of non-existence, pedalling Ezekiel's Wheels across the Weald of Surrey, jolting over the hills and smashing villages in his course, while the other man in brown cursed and swore at him and shouted to stop his career. There was the Putney heath-keeper, too, and the man in drab raging at him. He felt an awful fool, a- -what was it?--a juggins, ah!--a Juggernaut.

Translations

English

Etymology

Generalised use of Argonaut.

Noun

argonaut (plural argonauts)

1. Any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
   • 2018, Mark Carnall, The Guardian, 27 March:

     Amazingly, it wasn’t until 2010 that scientists experimentally understood how argonauts use their shell constructions to float in the water column and control buoyancy.

2. An adventurer on a dangerous but rewarding quest.

Derived terms

• jargonaut

Translations

Further reading

• Argonaut (animal) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

From French argonaute.

Noun

argonaut m (plural argonau?i)

1. argonaut

Declension