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archipelago

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An archipelago from above.

Etymology

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FromItalianarcipelago, formed on the basis ofAncient Greekἀρχι-(arkhi-,“main”) +πέλαγος(pélagos,“sea”), a designation for theAegean Sea. (Comparearch- andhigh seas.) The Aegean Sea is a sea with many islands; the termArcipelago, originally a proper noun referring to the Aegean Sea, was first generalized to a common noun for any sea with many islands, and then to the islands in such a sea.

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Noun

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archipelago (pluralarchipelagosorarchipelagoes)

  2. (collective, geography) Agroup ofislands.
  3. (now rare, specifically) TheAegean Sea.
    • 1791,Charlotte Smith,Celestina, Broadview, published2004, page413:
      [I]n his imagination he had settled his route, through Holland and France to Sicily, which he had long wished to see, and from thence to theArchipelago[…].
  4. (by extension) Something scattered around like an archipelago.
    The GulagArchipelago

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Translations

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group of islands

Verb

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archipelago (third-person singular simple presentarchipelagos,present participlearchipelagoing,simple past and past participlearchipelagoed)

  1. (transitive, rare) Toscatter or be scattered so as to resemble a group ofislands.
    • 1912, Samuel John Alexander, “The Regions Which Are Holy Land”, inThe Inverted Torch, and Other Poems, San Francisco, C.A.: A. M. Robertson,page183:
      As the seas level, as the seas / Swept into ripples by the breeze, / Andarchipelagoed by trees, / Majestic spreading oaks, that rise / Like island walls against the skies.
    • 1924,William A[lfred] Quayle,Out-of-Doors with Jesus, New York, N.Y., Cincinnati, O.H.:Abingdon Press,page196:
      There is no debating that there is a Gardener whose gardens are spontaneous as a sunup, no crimson and purple cloudsarchipelagoing the morning skies.
    • 1944, Thomas Ewing Dabney,One Hundred Great Years: The Story of the Times-Picayune From Its Founding to 1940, Baton Rouge, L.A.:Louisiana State University Press,page432:
      Crevasse! The word which describes the frightful chasm into which nature's mighty stresses break glaciers, the people of the Lower Mississippi applied to the river when its destruction burst upon the land. It meant a rush of water which might be fifteen feet high and a hundred feet wide the first hour, four hundred the next, and half a mile the next day; and which hurled itself upon towns and plantations, to gouge vast cavities and carry destruction fifty miles a day; the current sweeping away everything in its immediate path, but losing its violence farther away in the placidity of a vast seaarchipelagoed by tree tops and house roofs and beaconed by factory chimneys.
    • 1987,Jeremy Reed,Blue Rock, London:Jonathan Cape,→ISBN,page53:
      For a long time he had kept a pet crow called Topsy; it ate gobbets of cheese from his hand andarchipelagoed the floor of his hut with droppings.

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Noun

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archipelago m (pluralarchipelagos)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) ofarquipélago.
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