Meaning

1 senses
  1. A member of a group of aboriginal Americans who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

    a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania

Origin

Borrowed from Unami Lënape / lënape.

Borrowed from Unami Lënape / lënape.

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Forms

plural: Lenapes / Lenape
SingularLenape
PluralLenapes / Lenape

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania:Delaware

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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