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- US Pronunciation
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- [len-uh-pee, luh-nah-pee]
- /ˈlɛn ə pi, ləˈnɑ pi/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [len-uh-pee, luh-nah-pee]
- /ˈlɛn ə pi, ləˈnɑ pi/
Definitions of lenape word
- noun plural lenape Delaware (defs 5, 6). 1
- noun lenape Delaware1 (sense 1) Delaware1 (sense 2) 0
- noun lenape 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. 0
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Origin of lenape
First appearance:
before 1720 One of the 49% newest English words
1720-30, Americanism; < Unami Delaware ləná·p·e (equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *elen- ordinary + *-a·pe·w man)
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Parts of speech for Lenape
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
lenape popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 68% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
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