American English pronunciation
How to pronounce delaware
IPA transcription: ['dɛlə,wɛɹ]
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Noun
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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
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a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania
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one of the British colonies that formed the United States
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a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
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the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware
Usage examples
- This station serves the Delaware County Courthouse.
- They reside in the Delaware Valley.
- Kent County, Delaware, home to Dover, is part of the Philadelphia market.
- Across the Delaware River are Port Jervis, New York and Montague, New Jersey.
- He played college football at Delaware State.
- He lives in Delaware with his wife Nancy.
- Further south, in Maryland and Delaware, the rains were also beneficial to arable land.
- The merchantman surrendered without resisting, and the two ships proceeded into the Delaware.
- He was also Delaware state auditor and a Republican.
- Students at the University of Delaware have nicknamed it The Bob.