delawares in English
noun
1
a river in the northeastern US that rises in the Catskill Mountains in New York and flows south for about 280 miles (450 km) to northern Delaware, where it meets the Atlantic Ocean at Delaware Bay. For much of its length it forms the eastern border of Pennsylvania.
2
a state in the eastern US, on the Atlantic coast;; population 873,092 (est. 2008); capital, Dover; statehood, Dec. 7, 1787 (1). One of the original thirteen states, it was the first to ratify the US Constitution.
3
a member of an American Indian people formerly inhabiting the Delaware River valley of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
This Indian Territory was where eastern Indian tribes such as the Kickapoos, Delawares , and Shawnees lived.
4
either of two Algonquian languages (Munsi and Unami) spoken by this people.
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