noun
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
• Syn: ↑Delaware, ↑Diamond State, ↑DE
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑American state
• Part Holonyms:
↑United States, ↑United States of America, ↑America, ↑the States, ↑US, ↑U.S., ↑USA, ↑U.S.A., ↑Mid-Atlantic states
• Part Meronyms: ↑Dover, ↑capital of Delaware, ↑Wilmington, ↑Delaware, ↑Delaware River, ↑Delaware Bay
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Delaware (used as a nickname).
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First State,
a nickname for Delaware.
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a nickname for the state of Delaware I
Useful english dictionary. 2012.