Archipelago

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. The Grecian Archipelago, or [AE]gean Sea, separating


        Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number
        of small islands.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with
        many islands or with a group of islands.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  archipelago
       n : 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