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[syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
De- \De-\
A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark,
decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it
is equivalent to Latin dis- apart, away; or sometimes to de.
Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform,
destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare,
desolate, etc.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
DE
n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
de
The country code for Germany.
(1999-01-27)