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Archipelago vs Azores - What's the difference?

archipelago | azores |

As nouns the difference between archipelago and azores

is that archipelago is a group of islands while azores is .

As a verb azores is

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archipelago

English

Noun

(wikipedia archipelago) (en-noun)
  • A group of islands.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  • For many years past the whaleship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.
  • Something scattered around like an archipelago.
  • The Gulag Archipelago

    azores

    English

    Proper noun

    (en-proper noun) (p)
  • An archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic and an autonomous region of Portugal comprising this archipelago, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores.
  • Derived terms

    * Azorean