delaware

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 (synset 109287022)
   is an instance of: river - a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
   is a part of:

   • de, del., delaware, diamond state, first state - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
   • empire state, n.y., new york, new york state, ny - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
   same as: delaware river
2. A member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania (synset 109674223)
   is a type of: algonquian, algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
3. One of the British colonies that formed the United States (synset 109092618)
   is an instance of: colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
4. A Mid-Atlantic state;
   One of the original 13 colonies (synset 109092353)
   is an instance of: american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
   has:

   • capital of delaware, dover - the capital of the state of Delaware
   • wilmington - the largest city in Delaware
   • 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
   • delaware bay - an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River
   is a part of:

   • america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
   • mid-atlantic states - a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland
   same as: de, del., diamond state, first state
5. The Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware (synset 106922347)
   is a type of: algonquian, algonquian language, algonquin - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains

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