noun
1. 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 (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑Delaware River
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑river
• Part Holonyms:
2. a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania
• Hypernyms: ↑Algonquian, ↑Algonquin
3. one of the British colonies that formed the United States
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑Colony
4. a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
• Syn: ↑Diamond State, ↑First State, ↑DE
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑American state
• Part Holonyms:
↑United States, ↑United States of America, ↑America, ↑the States, ↑US, ↑U.S., ↑USA, ↑U.S.A., ↑Mid-Atlantic states
• Part Meronyms: ↑Dover, ↑capital of Delaware, ↑Wilmington, ↑Delaware River, ↑Delaware Bay
5. the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware
• Hypernyms: ↑Algonquian, ↑Algonquin, ↑Algonquian language
Useful english dictionary. 2012.