delaware
Portuguese, noun
delaware is spelled D-E-L-A-W-A-R-E (8 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 29,263rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Delaware is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “Delaware; Lenape (member of a native people of eastern North America)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Delaware is a different word: “alternative letter-case form of delaware”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “língua indígena falada nos Estados Unidos”.
What does delaware mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculineDelaware; Lenape (member of a native people of eastern North America)
noun
- 1
femininemasculinealternative letter-case form of delaware
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estado dos Estados Unidos da América, banhado pelo oceano Atlântico e que faz fronteira com os estados da Pensilvânia, New Jersey e Maryland; sua capital é Dover 2. rio dos Estados Unidos da América
noun: 1. língua indígena falada nos Estados Unidos
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of delaware
- Delawares plural
- delawares plural
- Delaware alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to delaware
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is delaware in Portuguese?
delaware appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).