DELAWARE BAY

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Delaware Bay mean? 

• DELAWARE BAY (noun)
  The noun DELAWARE BAY has 1 sense:

1. an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River

  Familiarity information: DELAWARE BAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DELAWARE BAY (noun)

Meaning:

An inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)

Holonyms ("Delaware Bay" is a part of...):

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

Garden State; Jersey; New Jersey; NJ (a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies)

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)