Definition of Archipelagos

1. Noun. (plural of archipelago) ¹

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Definition of Archipelagos

1. archipelago [n] - See also: archipelago

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archipelagos

archimandrites
archimedes
archimime
archimimes
archimperialist
archimperialists
archin
archine
archines
arching
archings
archipallium
archipelagic
archipelago
archipelagoes
archipelagos (current term)
archiphonemic
archiptergyia
archipterygium
architect
architect's lien
architect's liens
architect's ruler
architected
architecting
architective
architectonic
architectonical
architectonics
architectress

Literary usage of Archipelagos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries by John Crawfurd (1856)
"The name given to it, in nearly all the languages of the two archipelagos, is but a corruption of that which was received from their European conquerors, ..."

2. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America by George Brettingham Sowerby, William Lonsdale, Edward Forbes, Charles Darwin (1897)
"No doubt some one island in most small volcanic archipelagos is apt to be considerably higher than the others; in a similar manner, whatever the cause may ..."

3. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1834)
"On the NW coast of America are small clusters, called George Third's, Prince of Wales's, and Pitt's archipelagos [see COOK, VANCOUVER, PEROUSE], ..."

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