DE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does DE mean? 

• DE (noun)
  The noun DE has 1 sense:

1. a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

  Familiarity information: DE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

DE; Del.; Delaware; Diamond State; First State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "DE"):

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 ("DE" 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)

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