archipelago.

A group or chain of islands, sometimes considered together with their surrounding waters.

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Words that belong together

• island archipelago
• scattered archipelago

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The ferry linked the archipelago’s islands.

A scattered archipelago lay offshore.

The chart showed the whole archipelago.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Singular archipelago; plural archipelagos or archipelagoes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.