Lenape

  1. Proper noun.  A group of native American people 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.
  2. Proper noun.  The languages spoken by all of this group; Delaware.
  3. Proper noun.  The language spoken in the southern range of this group in coastal Delaware, southern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania; Unami.
  4. Noun.  A member of any tribe of this group.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.