Delawares

Variant of Delaware

Delaware definition

Dela·ware (del′ə wer′, -war′)

noun

  1. pl. Delawares -·wares′ or Delaware -·ware′ a member of any of a group of North American Indian peoples that lived in the Delaware River valley, now living mainly in Oklahoma and Ontario
  2. the Algonquian language of these peoples
  3. a small, sweet, reddish American grape

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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