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DELAWARE RIVER [1 record]

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Record 1 2011-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
DEF

A river (280 miles long) in the northeast United States of America. It rises in the Catskills, and flows into Delaware Bay, an estuarine inlet (52 miles long) between the New Jersey and Delaware coasts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
DEF

Fleuve des États-Unis qui rejoint l'Atlantique en passant par Philadelphie.

OBS

Le nom d'un fleuve, lorsque cité sans le générique, demeure masculin.

OBS

Bien que le Delaware soit un fleuve, l'usage veut que la baie dans laquelle il se déverse soit nommée «baie de la Delaware», comme si elle avait été désignée au temps où l'on croyait le Delaware être une rivière.

Spanish

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