Delaware River
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1.5
- proper noun
- /ˈdɛləˌwɛr ˈrɪvər/
:
río Delaware
- We met at an outdoor hoedown on the Delaware River near a whitewater rafting site.
Examples
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PPL Park is located on the banks of the Delaware River and is the home stadium for the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer.
Blog text (1) -
Thick chunks of ice float in the Delaware River.
Fiction book (2002) -
We are lucky to live in a very old house in a very old town right on the Delaware River.
Blog text (28) -
Soon, the Delaware River will freeze over.
Fiction book (2002) -
We live in an area that is prone to flooding because of the Delaware River.
Blog text (17) -
The Philadelphia Clean Air Council works to reduce pollution from land, air, and water in Philadelphia port communities along the Delaware River.
Academic text (2009) -
The log cabin was introduced by early Swedish settlers along the Delaware River.
Academic text (1991) -
Penn desperately wanted a seaport city on the Delaware River, so he sited Philadelphia on land that was later found to be four miles south of the 40th parallel.
Academic text (2006) -
His objective was the Hessian garrison at Trenton, New Jersey; the end of a string of British forts across the state; and during a raging storm, he crossed the Delaware River.
Academic text (1992) -
Officials have evacuated hundreds of people from towns along the Delaware River, including 200 from a nursing home.
Synonyms
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2.8
A river in the eastern United States that starts in the Catskill Mountains and flows into Delaware Bay
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward place-name + noun composition: knowing 'Delaware' as a proper name and 'river' as a watercourse yields the meaning 'the river called Delaware.' Such toponymic constructions are cross-linguistically common and follow standard compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
The name Delaware River may come from an English governor, Lord De La Warr, whose ships sailed near the river in the 1600s. So the river was given his 'name' and people still call this big river the Delaware River.