Meaning

5 senses
  1. (broadly)A sea or other body of water with many islands.

    a group of many islands in a large body of water

  2. (broadly, collective)A group of many islands.

    Archipel, Inselgruppe, Inselhaufen

    архипела́гarxipelág

    архіпела́гarxipeláh

  3. (figuratively)A thing comprising many other scattered things.

    the Gulag Archipelago

  4. A thing comprising many other scattered things.

    (figuratively)A cross-game modification system that randomizes in-game abilities and items scattered across multiple and different modded games

  5. (archaic)Preceded by the, and often in the form Archipelago: the Aegean Sea.

Examples

19 sentences
  1. The archipelago is situated between two oceans.

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  2. It's the largest island of the archipelago.

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  3. The archipelago is made up of twenty-two islands.

    ruАрхипелаг состоит из двадцати двух островов.

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  4. Japan is an enormous archipelago.

    ruЯпония — огромный архипелаг.

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  5. Japan is an immense archipelago.

    deJapan ist ein riesiger Archipel.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
group of many islands:
Русский
By meaning 1
group of many islands:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
group of many islands:

Origin

The noun is borrowed from Italian arcipelago (“Aegean Sea; group of many islands”), from a

The noun is borrowed from Italian arcipelago (“Aegean Sea; group of many islands”), from arci- (variant of archi- (prefix meaning ‘foremost, primary’)) + pelago (“(open) sea”):

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