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FIRST STATE

Pronunciation (US):

• FIRST STATE (noun)
The noun FIRST STATE has 1 sense:

1. a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

Familiarity information: FIRST STATE used as a noun is very rare.

• FIRST STATE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

DE; Diamond State; First State; Delaware

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "First State"):

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)

Holonyms ("First State" is a part of...):

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

"Life's a bitch and then you die."
(English proverb)
"Fun and pleasure are located below the navel; dispute and trouble are also located there."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"The secret to success is to walk forward."
(Arabic proverb)
"Gentle doctors cause smelly wounds."
(Dutch proverb)

Useful links:
Mid-Atlantic states definition
Pronunciation of capital of Delaware
American state definition
Pronunciation of Delaware
Wilmington definition

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