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archipelago
UK /ˌɑːkɪˈpɛləɡəʊ/ US /ˌɑɹkəˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/
noun 3verb 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
arctic, atlantic, enormous, finnish, immense, new, pacific, pacific
ARCHIPELAGO + NOUN
caledonia, gwaii, haida, independence, nation, philippines
PREP.
between, in, in, on, up
Definitions
noun
1
A group of islands.
For many years past the whaleship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.
2
The Aegean Sea.
[I]n his imagination he had settled his route, through Holland and France to Sicily, which he had long wished to see, and from thence to the Archipelago […].
3
Something scattered around like an archipelago.
the Gulag Archipelago
verb
1
To scatter or be scattered so as to resemble a group of islands.
As the seas level, as the seas / Swept into ripples by the breeze, / And archipelagoed by trees, / Majestic spreading oaks, that rise / Like island walls against the skies.
There is no debating that there is a Gardener whose gardens are spontaneous as a sunup, no crimson and purple clouds archipelagoing the morning skies.
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For many years past the whaleship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Va
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[I]n his imagination he had settled his route, through Holland and France to Sicily, which he had long wished to see, and from thence to the Archipelago […].
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the Gulag Archipelago
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As the seas level, as the seas / Swept into ripples by the breeze, / And archipelagoed by trees, / Majestic spreading oaks, that rise / Like island walls against the skies.
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There is no debating that there is a Gardener whose gardens are spontaneous as a sunup, no crimson and purple clouds archipelagoing the morning skies.
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Crevasse! The word which describes the frightful chasm into which nature's mighty stresses break glaciers, the people of the Lower Mississippi applied to the river when its destruction burst upon the
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