Archipelago \Ar`chi*pel"a*go\, n.; pl. -goes or -gos. [It.
arcipelago, properly, chief sea; Gr. pref ? + ? sea, perh.
akin to ? blow, and expressing the beating of the waves. See
Plague.]
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1. The Grecian Archipelago, or [AE]gean Sea, separating
Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number
of small islands.
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2. Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with
many islands or with a group of islands.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
archipelago
n : a group of many islands in a large body of water
[also: archipelagoes (pl)]
WordNet (r) 2.0
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "archipelago":
ait, atoll, bar, cay, continental island, coral head, coral island,
coral reef, holm, insularity, island, island group, islandology,
isle, islet, key, oceanic island, reef, sandbank, sandbar
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
archipelagoes (pl)
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