Del·a·ware 1 (děl'ə-wâr') n.
pl.Delaware or Del·a·wares
A group of closely related Native American peoples formerly inhabiting the Delaware and Hudson river valleys and the area between, with present-day populations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Ontario. The Delaware formed a variety of political alliances in their westward migration after losing their lands to white settlement in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A member of a Delaware people. Also called Lenape, Lenni Lenape.
One or both of the Algonquian languages of the Delaware.
[After the Delaware River.] Del'a·war'e·an adj.
Len·a·pe (lěn'ə-pē) n.
pl.Lenape or Len·a·pes See Delaware1.
[len-uh-pee, luh-nah-pee] 
