DELAWARE RIVER

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 I. (noun) 

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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 River" 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)

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