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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. 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;
[syn: Delaware, Delaware River]

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

3. one of the British colonies that formed the United States;

4. a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies;
[syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]

5. the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Delaware \Del"a*ware\ (d[e^]l"[.a]*w[^a]r), n. 1. one of the thirteen original states of the United States of America. [PJC] 2. (Bot.) An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Delawares \Del"a*wares\ (d[e^]l"[.a]*w[^a]rz), n. pl.; sing. Delaware. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Delaware n 1: 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 [syn: Delaware, Delaware River] 2: a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania 3: one of the British colonies that formed the United States 4: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE] 5: the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware