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# archipelago

«archipelago» in Mova's school dictionary: **A group of islands close together in the sea** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (archipelago, archipelagos or archipelagoes)

### meaning for a pupil

A group of islands close together in the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archipelago/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons: Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, the Hebrides, the Galápagos are archipelagos. Phrases: «a chain of islands».

### examples

- Indonesia is the biggest archipelago in the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archipelago/#x1)
- The Galápagos archipelago has giant tortoises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archipelago/#x2)
- We sailed around the archipelago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archipelago/#x3)
- Britain and Ireland are part of an archipelago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archipelago/#x4)
- The Philippines is an archipelago of over 7,000 islands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archipelago/#x5)
- Draw the archipelago on your map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archipelago/#x6)

### note

Said «ar-ki-PEL-a-go». Plural: archipelagos.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «archipelago» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/archipelago/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.