Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun connecticut

3 senses of connecticut

Sense 1
Connecticut, Nutmeg State, Constitution State, CT -- (a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies)
       INSTANCE OF=> American state -- (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Sense 2
Connecticut, Connecticut River -- (a river in the northeastern United States; flows south from northern New Hampshire along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont and through Massachusetts and Connecticut where it empties into Long Island Sound)
       INSTANCE OF=> river -- (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles")

Sense 3
Connecticut -- (one of the British colonies that formed the United States)
       INSTANCE OF=> Colony -- (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)