DE

DE

abbr.

Delaware

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DE

abbreviation for

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (formerly in Britain) Department of Employment

2. (Placename) Delaware

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de¹, De before a vowel, d', D' [də]

of; from: occurring as part of some personal names and originally indicating place of origin Simon de Montfort D'Arcy de la Mare

[from Latin dē; see de-]

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de²

(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science)

the Internet domain name for Germany

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de- ,

a prefix, occurring orig. in loanwords from Latin, used to form verbs that denote motion or conveyance down from, away, or off (deflect; descend); reversal or undoing of the effects of an action (deflate); extraction or removal of a thing (decaffeinate); thoroughness or completeness of an action (despoil).

[Middle English < Latin dē-, prefixal use of dē (preposition) from, away from, of, out of; in some words, < French < Latin dē- or dis- dis-¹]

DE

1. Delaware.

2. destroyer escort.

D.E.

1. Doctor of Engineering.

2. driver education.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

DE - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies Diamond State, First State, Delaware U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 Mid-Atlantic states - a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland 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