Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Delaware \Del"a*ware\, n. (Bot.)
An American grape, with compact bunches of small,
amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.
Delawares \Del"a*wares\, n. pl.; sing. {Delaware}. (Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the
Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian
Territory.
Source : WordNet®
Delaware
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 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:
{Diamond State}, {First State}, {DE}]
5: the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware people