DELAWARE RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Delaware River mean? 

• DELAWARE RIVER (noun)
  The noun DELAWARE RIVER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DELAWARE RIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELAWARE RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Delaware; Delaware River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Delaware River" is a part of...):

DE; Del.; Delaware; Diamond State; First State; Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)