Definitions
Group or chain of islands.
Word origin
Noun sense 2.1 (“sea with many islands”) is from the fact that the Aegean Sea has many islands, and noun sense 2.2 (“group of many islands”) represents a shift of meaning from the sea to the islands in such a sea.
Used in a sentence
“[M]any other iles within the Archpelago that is yͤ Gulf be twix Grese and Turkye that cometh from the Grekes see in to the grete see before Constantynople, thorow the brace of Seynt George·”
“Such good progress had been made that at sunrise the lighthouse on the rocks of Landsort was visible, and the jagged masses of that archipelago of cloven isles which extends all the way to Tornea, began to stud the sea.”
“the Gulag Archipelago”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Island group”11 letters
02“Island chain”11 letters
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