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UK/diː/ US/dɪ/ common us

noun

1.

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 德 (dé, “virtue, manliness”).

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