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Delawares
Del·a·ware 1 D0108200 (dĕl′ə-wâr′)n. pl. Delaware or Del·a·wares 1. A member of a group of closely related Native American peoples formerly inhabiting the Delaware and Hudson river valleys and the area between, with present-day populations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Ontario. The Delaware formed a variety of political alliances in their westward migration after losing their lands to white settlement in the 1600s and 1700s. Also called Lenape, Lenni Lenape.2. Either of two closely related Algonquian languages, Munsee and Unami, historically spoken by this people.
[After the Delaware River.]
Del′a·war′e·an adj.
Del·a·ware 2 D0108200 (dĕl′ə-wâr′) Abbr. DE or Del. A state of the eastern United States on the Atlantic Ocean. One of the original Thirteen Colonies, it was settled by the Dutch in 1631 and by Swedes in 1638, passing to England in 1664. It was part of William Penn's Pennsylvania grant from 1682 until 1776. In 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. Dover is the capital and Wilmington the largest city.
Del·a·ware 3 D0108200 (dĕl′ə-wâr′)n. A variety of grape having sweet, light red fruit.
[After Delaware2.]Delawares
Delawares (Lenni-Lenape), a tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquian language family. In the 17th century they occupied the territory of what is now Delaware and New Jersey and parts of New York and Pennsylvania. They had a matriarchal society and engaged in hunting, fishing, and agriculture. The Delawares had a pictographic written language, in which a legendary history of the tribe was recorded. In the middle of the 20th century in the USA, there were about 2,500 people who were descendants of the Delawares, most of whom lived in the rural regions of Oklahoma. LegalSeeDelaware |