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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Archipelago \Ar'chi*pel"a*go\, noun; 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}.]
1. The Grecian Archipelago, or [AE]gean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.
2. Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands. ||
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
archipelago
noun: a group of many islands in a large body of water [also: {archipelagoes} (pl)]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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