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archipelago
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun archipelago has 1 sense
- archipelago(n = noun.object) Array - a group of many islands in a large body of water; Array has particulars: cape verde islands, tierra del fuego, comoro islands, iles comores, the indies, west indies, antilles, greater antilles, caribees, lesser antilles, leeward islands, windward islands, windward isles, svalbard, lofoten, aaland islands, ahvenanmaa, aland islands, arctic archipelago, aleutian islands, aleutians, oceania, oceanica, australasia, austronesia, melanesia, micronesia, ladrone islands, mariana islands, marianas, caroline islands, marshall islands, gilbert islands, ellice islands, tuvalu, polynesia, east india, east indies, malay archipelago, sunda islands, greater sunda islands, lesser sunda islands, nusa tenggara, bismarck archipelago, admiralty islands, isles of scilly, scilly islands, hebridean islands, hebridean isles, hebrides, western islands, western isles, inner hebrides, outer hebrides, japan, japanese archipelago, japanese islands, ryukyu islands, volcano islands, frisian islands, orkney islands, shetland, shetland islands, zetland, belau, palau, palau islands, pelew, philippine islands, philippines, madeira islands, madeiras, society islands, low archipelago, paumotu archipelago, tuamotu archipelago, austral islands, tubuai islands, gambier islands, iles marquises, marquesas islands, solomon islands, solomons, balearic islands, alexander archipelago, hawaiian islands, sandwich islands
is a kind of dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma
Derived form adjective archipelagic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
archipelago, n. [It. arcipelago, properly, chief sea; Gr. pref + sea, perh. akin to blow, and expressing the beating of the waves. See Plague.].
- The Grecian Archipelago, or Ægean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands. [1913 Webster]
- Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
archipelago, n. (pl. -os or -oes)
1 a group of islands.
2 a sea with many islands.
1 a group of islands.
2 a sea with many islands.
Etymology
It. arcipelago f. Gk arkhi- chief + pelagos sea (orig. = the Aegean Sea)
THESAURUS
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, sandbarROGET THESAURUS
archipelago
Island
N island, isle, islet, eyot, ait, holf, reef, atoll, breaker, archipelago, islander, insular, seagirt, archipelagic, Fluids in Motion.
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