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Meaning of archipelago in English
Pronunciation
/ˌɑrkəˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/
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Noun
archipelago
Etymology
early 16th century: from Italian arcipelago, from Greek arkhi-‘chief’ + pelagos‘sea’. The word was originally used as a proper name (the Archipelago ‘the Aegean Sea’): the general sense arose because the Aegean Sea is notable for its large numbers of islands
Definitions
1.
a group of many islands in a large body of water