Delaware - Definition

n 1: 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 [syn: Delaware, Delaware
River]
2: a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New
Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania
3: one of the British colonies that formed the United States
4: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
5: the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware