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tom-tom Tom , Tom male personal forename.
Tom and Jerry names of the two chief characters in Egan's Life in London, 1821, and its continuation, 1828; whence in var… Uncle Tom , Uncle To m is associated with negative, self-denigrating attributes. An Uncle Tom is a black person who is submissive, docile, self-effacing, a race… Archipelago , ar·chi·pel·a·go / ˌärkəˈpeləˌgō/ • n. (pl. -gos or -goes) a group of islands. ∎ a sea or stretch of water containing many islands. ORIGIN: early 16th… Kai Islands , Kai Islands or Kei Islands (both: kī), island group (c.550 sq mi/ 1,420 sq km), E Indonesia, SE of Seram, in the Banda Sea, in the Moluccas. It is de… Komandorski Islands , Komandorski Islands (kŏməndôr´skē) or Commander Islands, Rus. Komandorskiye Ostrova, group of treeless islands, off E Kamchatka Peninsula, E Russian…
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