Archipelago meaning

Noun: archipelago

Pronunciation: (aa-ki’pe-lu,gow)

Archipelago meaning: A group of many islands in a large body of water.

Quotations: William Schulz – The U.S. is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons, into which people are being literally disappeared, held in indefinite, incommunicado detention without access to lawyers or a judicial system or to their families.

Matt King – A family seems exactly like an archipelago. All are part of the same whole, but still separate and alone and always drifting slowly apart.

Cecil Rhodes – To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonization by British subjects of all lands where the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labor and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire.

Aravind Adiga – I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

Charles Darwin – Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.

Sample sentences:

1. We have a myth that the Japanese archipelago is inhabited by a single race, the Japanese. There is supposed to be nobody other than the Japanese.
2. The five main archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand, and the British Isles.
3. In no part of the tropics I have visited has so much care been required to preserve my collections as in the eastern portions of the Indian Archipelago.
4. Before giving a general sketch of my life and work in less known parts of the Archipelago, I must refer to an article I wrote while in Sarawak, which formed my first contribution to the great question of the origin of species.
5. In this Archipelago there are two distinct faunas rigidly circumscribed.