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DELAWARE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Delaware" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
Synonyms:
DE; Del.; Delaware; Diamond State; First State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Delaware"):
capital of Delaware; Dover (the capital of the state of Delaware)
Wilmington (the largest city in Delaware)
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)
Delaware Bay (an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River)
Holonyms ("Delaware" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Mid-Atlantic states (a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland)
Sense 3
Meaning:
One of the British colonies that formed the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)
Sense 4
Meaning:
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; Delaware River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Delaware" is a part of...):
DE; Del.; Delaware; Diamond State; First State; Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Delaware" is a kind of...):
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)
