archipelago
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ar·chi·pel·a·go /ˌɑːkəˈpeləɡəʊ $ ˌɑːrkəˈpeləɡoʊ/ noun (plural archipelagos) [countable] SGa group of small islands 群岛 →5 see picture at 见图 island
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archipelago• They were not dropped into the oblivion of the Gulag archipelago or the Lubianka.• Her scissors move through the material like a swimmer doing crawl, among the archipelago of tissue paper.• Sulawesi breaks many of the rules of animal distribution in the archipelago.• Dili was the malai island of romance, the most beautiful spot in the archipelago.• They even partitioned the archipelago into three quite separate military commands.• For the rest, the archipelago could and did live off its own resources.• Cornelius observed that freckles on her left cheek mapped out the Tuamotu archipelago of south-west Polynesia.• The view however, is spectacular, taking in most of the fifteen islands of the Westmann archipelago.Origin archipelago (1600-1700) Archipelago “Aegean sea” ((16-19 centuries)), from Italian, “main sea”, from arci- (from Latin archi-; → ARCH-) + Greek pelagos “sea”ar·chi·pel·a·go nounChineseSyllable
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archipelago
ar‧chi‧pel‧a‧go /ˌɑːkəˈpeləɡəʊ, ˌɑːkɪˈpeləɡəʊ $ ˌɑːrkəˈpeləɡoʊ/
noun (plural archipelagos) [countable]
▪ island a piece of land completely surrounded by water: We visited the Greek island of Kos. | In the centre of a lake is a small island.
▪isle an island – used in poetry or in names of islands: The horse carried him to the windswept isle of Bujan. | It is the most southerly point in the British Isles. | the Windward Isles | the Isle of Wight
▪peninsula a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a large area of land: There is a coastal path around the peninsula. | the Korean peninsula
▪archipelago a group of small islands that are in a line: He lives on an island at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago.
ar‧chi‧pel‧a‧go /ˌɑːkəˈpeləɡəʊ, ˌɑːkɪˈpeləɡəʊ $ ˌɑːrkəˈpeləɡoʊ/
noun (plural archipelagos) [countable] Date: 1600-1700
Origin: Archipelago 'Aegean sea' (16-19 centuries), from Italian, 'main sea', from arci- (from Latin archi-; ⇨ arch-) + Greek pelagos 'sea'
a group of small islandsOrigin: Archipelago 'Aegean sea' (16-19 centuries), from Italian, 'main sea', from arci- (from Latin archi-; ⇨ arch-) + Greek pelagos 'sea'
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