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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Greek

delta

 noun
     
Related topics: Geology, Geography, Letters and punctuation
del‧ta [countable]
1SLA the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet
2SG an area of low land where a river spreads into many smaller rivers near the sea:
the Nile delta
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