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Delaware

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Delaware

1
 n
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
2
 n
a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay
3
 n
a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Delaware
1

n a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

Synonyms:
DE, Diamond State, First State
Example of:
American state
one of the 50 states of the United States

n one of the British colonies that formed the United States

Example of:
Colony
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
2

n a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay

Synonyms:
Delaware River
Example of:
river
a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
3

n a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania

Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquin
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast

n the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware

Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin
family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
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