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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A large group of islands: the Philippine archipelago.
  2. n. A sea, such as the Aegean, containing a large number of scattered islands.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. [capitalized] Originally and specifically, the sea which separates Greece from Asia Minor, otherwise called the Ægean sea, studded with a number of small islands. Hence, generally
  2. n. Any body of water abounding with islands, or the islands themselves collectively.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A group of islands.
  2. n. Something scattered around like an archipelago.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The Grecian Archipelago, or Ægean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.
  2. n. Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a group of many islands in a large body of water

Etymologies

  1. From Italian arcipelago ("Aegean Sea"), from Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (archi, "leading") + πέλαγος (pelagos, "sea"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Italian Arcipelago, the Aegean Sea, alteration (influenced by arci-, chief, archi-) of Medieval Latin Ēgēopelagus : Latin Aegaeus, Ēgēus, Aegean (from Greek Aigaios) + Latin pelagus, sea (from Greek pelagos . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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