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DELAWARE BAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)
Holonyms ("Delaware Bay" is a part of...):
DE; Del.; Delaware; Diamond State; First State (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ (a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies)
Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)