Delaware
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Map of US highlighting Delaware
English
Alternative forms
- Delawar (obsolete)
Etymology
The river in the northeastern United States was named for Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–1618). The people and the state were named for the river.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Delaware
- 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.
- Synonyms: Lenape, Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape
- Two closely related Algonquian languages of these people, Munsee and Unami.
- Synonym: Lenape
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
major river
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indigenous Native American people
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Algonquian languages of these people
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US state
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Noun
Delaware (plural Delawares)
- A member of the Lenape / Delaware people.
- An American variety of grape, with compact bunches of small, sweet, amber-colored berries.
Translations
member of the Lenape / Delaware people
See also
- De La Warr (became “Delaware”)
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Further reading
Delaware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Delaware (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Delaware.
Proper noun
Delaware (genitive Delawares)
- Delaware (a state of the United States)
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Delaware
- Delaware (a state of the United States)
Declension
| Inflection of Delaware (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Delaware | — | ||
| genitive | Delawaren | — | ||
| partitive | Delawarea | — | ||
| illative | Delawareen | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Delaware | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Delaware | — | |
| gen. | Delawaren | |||
| genitive | Delawaren | — | ||
| partitive | Delawarea | — | ||
| inessive | Delawaressa | — | ||
| elative | Delawaresta | — | ||
| illative | Delawareen | — | ||
| adessive | Delawarella | — | ||
| ablative | Delawarelta | — | ||
| allative | Delawarelle | — | ||
| essive | Delawarena | — | ||
| translative | Delawareksi | — | ||
| abessive | Delawaretta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Inflects like risti in speech.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English Delaware.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Delaware m
- Delaware (a state of the United States)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Delaware.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Delaware n (indeclinable)
- Delaware (a state of the United States)
Proper noun
Delaware f (indeclinable)
- Delaware (a river in the United States)
Further reading
- Delaware in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Delaware.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Delaware m
- Delaware (a river in the eastern United States)
- Delaware (a state of the United States)
Noun
Delaware m or f by sense (plural Delaware or Delawares)
- Alternative spelling of delaware
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Delaware n
- Delaware (a state of the United States)
References
- “Delaware”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
Proper noun
Delaware m
- Delaware (a state of the United States)
See also
- Delaware on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es