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 Definitions of Delaware  [ˈdɛl əˌwɛər]  

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Definition of 'Delaware' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) Delaware
a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast. 783,600; 2057 sq. mi. (5330 sq. km).

2.  Delaware
a river flowing S from SE New York, along the boundary between Pennsylvania and New Jersey into Delaware Bay. 296 mi. (475 km) long.

3.  Delaware
a member of any of a group of American Indian peoples formerly of the drainage basin of the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and the intervening area.

4.  Delaware
the Eastern Algonquian language of any of the Delaware peoples.


Definition of 'Delaware' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) Delaware, Delaware River
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

2. (noun) Delaware
a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania

3. (noun) Delaware
one of the British colonies that formed the United States

4. (noun) Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

5. (noun) Delaware
the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware


Definition of 'Delaware' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Delaware
an American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor


Definitions of 'Delaware' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  Delaware
one of the Atlantic and original States of the American Union, as well as the smallest of them; the soil is rather poor, but porcelain clay abounds.



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