Archipelago

Definitions

1. A group of islands.
   collective
2. The Aegean Sea.
   archaic, specifically
3. Something scattered around like an archipelago.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[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 […].”

“the Gulag Archipelago”

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