DE, Diamond State, First State, Delaware - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

Empire State, New York State, NY, New York - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

river - a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles"

Algonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast

Colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

Mid-Atlantic states - a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland

capital of Delaware, Dover - the capital of the state of Delaware

Wilmington - the largest city in Delaware

Delaware, Delaware River - 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

Delaware Bay - an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River

Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains