connecticut

noun ! Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about connecticut at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

1. A New England state; one of the original 13 colonies.
2. 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.
3. One of the British colonies that formed the United States.