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Wilmington

[wil-ming-tuhn]

noun

  1. a seaport in N Delaware, on the Delaware River.

  2. a seaport in SE North Carolina, on the Cape Fear River.

  3. a city in NE Massachusetts.

  4. a town in SW Ohio.



Wilmington

/ ˈɪɪŋə /

noun

  1. a port in N Delaware, on the Delaware River: industrial centre. Pop: 72 051 (2003 est)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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The men allegedly kept the drugs inside a safe house on Wilmington Avenue in Compton, the U.S.

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Much of this was the work of “the father of the port,” Phineas Banning, an indefatigable Wilmington, Del., native who bestowed that town’s name on the one he founded here.

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He and Nooner, of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, made the latest eruption prediction in July 2024 and posted it to their blog.

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I meet President Biden in the place he has called home since he was a boy, the city of Wilmington in Delaware.

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Tovar had another concert lined up for Wilmington headlined by the aggressively radical Dead Kennedys that he was calling “Storming the Docks,” if he could get police to sign off.

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