English Explanatory Dictionary

Delaware

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A river flowing from the Catskills through New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware in the northeastern United States and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Delaware Bay.
  2. The Lenape people, the indigenous people of Lenapehoking, in what is now the Mid-Atlantic United States.
  3. Two closely related Algonquian languages of these people, Munsee and Unami.
  4. The first state of the United States. Capital: Dover. Largest city: Wilmington.
  5. A river in the United States that flows from northeast Kansas into the Kansas River.
  6. Several places in the United States, named for the people or the state.
  7. A city, the county seat of Delaware County, Ohio.
  8. A city in Delaware County, Iowa.
  9. A town in Sullivan County, New York.
  10. A town in Nowata County, Oklahoma.
  11. An unincorporated community in Ripley County, Indiana.
  12. An unincorporated community in Shannon County, Missouri.
noun
  1. A member of the Lenape / Delaware people.
  2. An American variety of grape, with compact bunches of small, sweet, amber-colored berries.

Pronunciation

/ˈdɛləweə(ɹ)/ /ˈdɛləwɛɹ/ en-us-Delaware.ogg

Word forms

Delaware Delawar Delawares

Etymology

The river in the northeastern United States was named for Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–1618). The people and the state were named for the river.

Synonyms

Lenape Leni Lenape Lenni Lenape

Related words

De La Warr

Derived words

DE Delawarean Delaware Bay Delaware corporation Delaware County Delaware Nation Delaware River Delaware start Delaware Tribe of Indians Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma Delaware Valley Delaware Valley Metropolitan Area Delmarva Eastern Delaware Munsee-Delaware Nation

Translations

Finnish: delawaret Finnish: Delaware German: Delawaren German: Delawarinnen German: Lenni Lenape German: Lenape German: Delaware Arabic: دِيلَاوِير Bulgarian: Де́лауеър Chinese Mandarin: 特拉華 /特拉华 Czech: Delaware Danish: Delaware Galician: Delaware Georgian: დელავერი Greek: Ντέλαγουερ Hebrew: דלאוור Hungarian: Delaware Italian: Delaware Japanese: デラウェア Khmer: ដេឡាវែរ Korean: 델라웨어 Lao: ເດລາແວ Latin: Delavaria Limburgish: Delaware Macedonian: Делавер Navajo: Déláwee hahoodzo Occitan: Delaware Polish: Delaware Portuguese: Delaware Russian: Де́лавэр Spanish: Delaware Thai: เดลาแวร์ Tibetan: དྷེའི་ལ་ཝར Turkish: Delaware Ukrainian: Де́лавер Yiddish: דעלאַווער
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