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say it: DEL-uh-wer
delaware is a noun meaning "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". It carries 5 recorded senses.
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for delaware come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.