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Noun delaware has 5 senses

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
--₁ is a kind of river
--₁ is a part of
New York, New York State, Empire State, NY; Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE
Delaware - a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania
--₂ is a kind of Algonquian, Algonquin
Delaware - one of the British colonies that formed the United States
--₃ is a kind of Colony
Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
--₄ is a kind of American state
--₄ is a part of Mid-Atlantic states
--₄ has parts:
Dover, capital of Delaware; Wilmington; Delaware, Delaware River; Delaware Bay
Delaware - the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware people
--₅ is a kind of Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language