Meanings
- not comparablerareConsisting of or arranged in the form of an archipelago.
The German boys whose names all sounded the same were archipelagoed around the edge of the room, being interviewed by the Reichssender or napping.
2015, Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf, New York, N.Y.; Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 2152 more examples
Imagine a poor exile contemplating that inert thing; and imagine an angel suddenly sweeping down out of a better land and setting before him a mighty porter-house steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the gridddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most unimpeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; […]
1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), “”, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 572A vast drugget had been laid down, a buffet ran right across the stage some six feet from the back wall, and tables and little golden chairs were archipelago'd in corners.
1954, Clemence Dane [pseudonym; Winifred Ashton], The Flower Girls, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company Inc, published 1955, page 538
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of archipelago
Origin
Cite this entry
archipelagoed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/archipelagoed
“archipelagoed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/archipelagoed. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “archipelagoed,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/archipelagoed.
Source: archipelagoed on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.