archipelago
noun/ˌɑrkəˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/
Frequency rank: #9,228 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a group of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean.
Example sentence
The Philippines is famous for being this large archipelago made up of more than seven thousand islands.
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