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(now rare) The Aegean Sea. / (collective) A group of islands. / (by extension) Something scattered around like an archipelago.

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archipelago

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Source Word

archipelago

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɑːkɪˈpɛləɡəʊ/

Noun

archaic collective broadly

Japanese Meaning

（古い用法）エーゲ海を指すことがある。 / 群島、すなわち島々が集まった地形や状態。 / 比喩的に、点在するものの集まりを指す場合がある。

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The poet wrote of the archipelago's blue waves and ancient ruins, evoking the cradle of classical civilization.

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詩人はエーゲ海の青い波と古代遺跡について書き、古代文明のゆりかごを思い起こさせた。

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(now rare) 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 […] .

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(collective) 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.

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