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Synonyms of Lenape

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Another word for Lenape is Unami. Other synonyms of Lenape are Leni-Lanape, Lenni-Lanape, Leni-Lenape, Lenni-Lenape and Delaware.

Synonyms and similar words for Lenape

nounA member of a group of aboriginal Americans who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the...

proper nounMore synonyms

  • UnamiThe now-extinct Lenape/Delaware language of these people.

Meaning of Lenape

  1. noun 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.
  2. proper noun The languages (Munsee, Unami) 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.

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Questions about synonyms of Lenape

What is another word for Lenape?
Lenape has 6 synonyms on Word.ws, such as Unami, Leni-Lanape, Lenni-Lanape, Leni-Lenape, Lenni-Lenape and Delaware.
What does Lenape mean?
Lenape means 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.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lenape (page history and authors) and the entries of the words listed. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws grouped the synonyms and antonyms by meaning and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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