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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.]
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 1.6 [wn]:
archipelago
n : a group of many islands in a large body of water
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