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2 definitions found 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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