archipelago
English Thesaurus
1. a group of many islands in a large body of water (noun.object)
| instance hyponym | : | cape verde islands, |
| definition | : | a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | tierra del fuego, |
| definition | : | an archipelago off southern South America; separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan; islands are administered by Chile and by Argentina (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | comoro islands, iles comores, |
| definition | : | three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | the indies, west indies, |
| definition | : | the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | antilles, |
| definition | : | a group of islands in the West Indies (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | greater antilles, |
| definition | : | a group of islands in the western West Indies (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | caribees, lesser antilles, |
| definition | : | a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | leeward islands, |
| definition | : | a group of islands in the eastern West Indies (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | windward islands, windward isles, |
| definition | : | a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | svalbard, |
| definition | : | a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | lofoten, |
| definition | : | a string of islands off the northwestern coast of Norway in the Norwegian Sea (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | arctic archipelago, |
| definition | : | all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | aleutian islands, aleutians, |
| definition | : | an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | oceania, oceanica, |
| definition | : | a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago) (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | australasia, |
| definition | : | Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | austronesia, |
| definition | : | islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia) (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | melanesia, |
| definition | : | the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | micronesia, |
| definition | : | the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | ladrone islands, mariana islands, marianas, |
| definition | : | a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521 (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | caroline islands, |
| definition | : | a long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | marshall islands, |
| definition | : | a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | gilbert islands, |
| definition | : | a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979 (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | ellice islands, tuvalu, |
| definition | : | a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | polynesia, |
| definition | : | the islands in the eastern part of Oceania (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | sunda islands, |
| definition | : | a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | greater sunda islands, |
| definition | : | a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | lesser sunda islands, nusa tenggara, |
| definition | : | a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java; includes Bali and Timor (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | bismarck archipelago, |
| definition | : | a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | admiralty islands, |
| definition | : | a group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | isles of scilly, scilly islands, |
| definition | : | an archipelago of small islands off the southwestern coast of England near the entrance to the English Channel; formerly a haven for smugglers and pirates (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | inner hebrides, |
| definition | : | islands between the Outer Hebrides and the western coast of Scotland (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | outer hebrides, |
| definition | : | a 130-mile long archipelago to the northwest of Scotland (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | japan, japanese archipelago, japanese islands, |
| definition | : | a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | ryukyu islands, |
| definition | : | a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972) (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | volcano islands, |
| definition | : | a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | frisian islands, |
| definition | : | a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | orkney islands, |
| definition | : | an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | shetland, shetland islands, zetland, |
| definition | : | an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | belau, palau, palau islands, pelew, |
| definition | : | a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | philippine islands, philippines, |
| definition | : | an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | madeira islands, madeiras, |
| definition | : | a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Morocco; the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | society islands, |
| definition | : | an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | gambier islands, |
| definition | : | a group of islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | iles marquises, marquesas islands, |
| definition | : | a group of volcanic islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | solomon islands, solomons, |
| definition | : | the northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea; the remainder form an independent state within the British Commonwealth (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | balearic islands, |
| definition | : | an archipelago in the western Mediterranean off the eastern coast of Spain (noun.location) |
| instance hyponym | : | alexander archipelago, |
| definition | : | a group of islands off southeastern Alaska (noun.location) |
| member holonym | : | island, |
| definition | : | a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water (noun.object) |
| derivation | : | archipelagic, |
| definition | : | relating to or part of an archipelago (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | archipelagic, |
| definition | : | relating to or part of an archipelago (adj.pert) |
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