Delaware
English
Map of US highlighting Delaware
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.
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
- DE (abbreviation)
- Delawarean
- Delaware Bay
- Delaware corporation
- Delaware County
- Delaware Nation
- Delaware River
- Delaware Tribe of Indians
- Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma
- Delaware Valley
- Delaware Valley Metropolitan Area
- Delmarva
- Munsee-Delaware Nation
Translations
major river
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indigenous Native American people
Algonquian languages of these people
US state
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Noun
Delaware (plural Delawares)
Translations
See also
- De La Warr (became “Delaware”)
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| Federal District: Washington, D.C. |
| Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
Further reading
Delaware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Delaware (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Danish
Derived terms
- Delawarefloden
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdelɑʋe(ː)r/, [ˈde̞lɑ̝ʋe̞(ː)r]
- IPA(key): /ˈdelɑʋɑre/, [ˈde̞lɑ̝ˌʋɑ̝re̞]
- English pronunciation also used
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.laˈwɛr/
- Rhymes: -ɛr
- IPA(key): /de.laˈwɛjr/
- Rhymes: -ɛjr
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛˈla.wɛr/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -awɛr
- Syllabification: De‧la‧ware
Further reading
- Delaware in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.laˈwɛʁ/ [de.laˈwɛh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /de.laˈwɛɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /de.laˈwɛʁ/ [de.laˈwɛχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /de.laˈwɛɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɛ.lɐˈwɛɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /dɛ.lɐˈwɛ.ɾi/
Proper noun
Delaware m
- Delaware (a river in the eastern United States)
- Delaware (a state of the United States)
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɟelavar]
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
See also
- Delaware on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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