delaware
IPA: dˈɛɫʌwɛr
Root Word: Delaware
noun
- A river in the northeastern United States, running from the Catskills into the Atlantic Ocean at Delaware Bay.
- The Lenape people, the indigenous people of Lenapehoking, in what is now the Mid-Atlantic United States.
- Two closely related Algonquian languages of these people, Munsee and Unami.
- The first state of the United States. Capital: Dover. Largest city: Wilmington.
- A river in the United States that flows from northeast Kansas into the Kansas River.
- Several places in the United States, named for the people or the state.
- A city, the county seat of Delaware County, Ohio.
- A city in Delaware County, Iowa.
- A town in Sullivan County, New York.
- A town in Nowata County, Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in Ripley County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Shannon County, Missouri.
- A ghost town in Keweenaw County, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Delaware Township.
- A community in Ontario, Canada.
- A member of the Lenape / Delaware people.
- An American variety of grape, with compact bunches of small, sweet, amber-colored berries.
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Examples of "delaware" in Sentences
- Flood waters recede from Delaware beaches.
- Delaware County is razing Civil War era house.
- It flows in a serpentine course to the Delaware.
- He was one of the publishers of the Delaware Gazette.
- After several years of infirmity, he died in Dover, Delaware.
- He was the Captain of Company E of the First Delaware Calvary.
- Miss Delaware serves as the official hostess to the state of Delaware.
- It is the most affluent of the three counties in the state of Delaware.
- Most of the Delawares fled to the militant towns on the Sandusky River.
- The church's steeple acted as a landmark beacon for shippers on the Delaware.
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