delaware Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Del"a*ware noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

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