Delaware

/ˌdɛləˈwɛər/

Other forms: Delawares

Definitions of Delaware

1. noun

   a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
   synonyms: DE, Diamond State, First State

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   American state

   one of the 50 states of the United States
2. noun

   one of the British colonies that formed the United States
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   Colony

   one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
3. noun

   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

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   river

   a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
4. noun

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

   the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware
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   Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin

   family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains