Delaware
pronunciation
How to pronounce Delaware in British English:
UK ['deləwɛə]
How to pronounce Delaware in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- 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
- a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania
- one of the British colonies that formed the United States
- a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
- the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware people
Word Origin
- Delaware
- U.S. state, river, Indian tribe, named for the bay, which was named for Baron (commonly "Lord") De la Warr (Thomas West, 1577-1618), first English colonial governor of Virginia. The family name is attested from 1201, from Delaware in Brasted, Kent, probably ultimately from de la werre "of the war" (a warrior), from Old French werre/guerre "war."
Example
- 1. At delaware , officials are trying new strategies .
- 2. 5 / 17 A carpenter bee forages for pollen on an azalea shrub in wilmington , delaware
- 3. The first resistant species to pose a serious threat to agriculture was spotted in a delaware soybean field in 2000 .
- 4. While in wilmington , he addressed the delaware society for promoting domestic manufacturers and imparted a hopeful message .
- 5. The sugarhouse casino on the delaware river in philadelphia was packed on a recent federal holiday .