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Word of the day November 11
The Word of the Day for November 11 is:
archipelago • \ahr-kuh-PEH-luh-goh\ • (noun) a group of islands
A little more information about today’s word:
The Greeks called it the "Aegean Pelagos" and the Italians referred to it as "Arcipelago" (principal sea), but we now call it the Aegean Sea. Numerous islands dot its expanse, and 16th-century English speakers adopted a modified form of its Italian name for any sea with a similar scattering of islands. By the 19th century "archipelago" had come to refer to the groups of islands themselves, and now it is often used figuratively, as in, for example, "an archipelago of high rises."
My sentence:
When his discovery turned out to be not one, but many islands, Columbus named the archipelago "Virgin Islands" -- after Saint Ursula and her legendary companions, eleven thousand Virgins who took to the sea.
Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 10th Edition.
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