archipelago

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Preceded by the, and often in the form Archipelago: the Aegean Sea.

   “[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·”

2. isim A sea or other body of water with many islands.
3. isim A group of many islands.

   “I have not met with any account of the land birds being so tame, in any other quarter of the world, as at the Galapagos and Falkland Islands. And it may be observed that of the few archipelagoes of any size, which when discovered were uninhabited by man, these two are among the most important.”

4. isim A thing comprising many other scattered things.

   “the Gulag Archipelago”

5. fiil To scatter or strew (a place, or something) with things that collectively resemble a group of many islands.

   “As the seas level, as the seas / Swept into ripples by the breeze, / And archipelagoed by trees, / Majestic spreading oaks, that rise / Like island walls against the skies.”