DELAWARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Delaware mean? 

• DELAWARE (noun)
  The noun DELAWARE has 5 senses:

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

2. a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania

3. one of the British colonies that formed the United States

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

5. the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware

  Familiarity information: DELAWARE used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELAWARE (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Delaware; Delaware River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Delaware" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Delaware" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Sense 3

Meaning:

One of the British colonies that formed the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)

Sense 4

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 "Delaware"):

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 ("Delaware" 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)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Delaware" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)

 Context examples 

The area in the United States comprised of the following states: New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

(North Mid-Atlantic States, NCI Thesaurus)

An iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware split off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf sometime between July 10 and July 12.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)

A research team led by ecologists Sunita Shah Walter of the University of Delaware and Peter Girguis of Harvard University has shown that underground aquifers near the undersea Mid-Atlantic Ridge act like natural biological reactors, pulling in cold, oxygenated seawater, and allowing microbes to consume more refractory carbon than scientists believed.

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)