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Webster 1913 Edition

Archipelago

Arˊchi-pel′a-go

,
Noun.
;
pl.
-goes
or
-gos
.
[It.
arcipelago
, properly, chief sea; Gr. pref [GREEK] + [GREEK] sea, perh. akin to [GREEK] blow, and expressing the beating of the waves. See
Plague
.]
1.
The Grecian Archipelago, or Ægean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.
2.
Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.

Webster 1828 Edition

Archipelago

ARCHIPEL'AGO

,
Noun.
[Authors are not agreed as to the origin of this word. Some suppose it to be compounded of Gr. chief, and sea; others of the Egean sea.]
In a general sense, a sea interspersed with many isles; but particularly the sea which separates Europe from Asia, otherwise called the Egean Sea. It contains the Grecian isles, called Cyclades and Sporades.

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