Associations to the word «Connecticut»

Wiktionary

CONNECTICUT, proper noun. A state of the United States of America Capital: Hartford.
CONNECTICUT, proper noun. A river in the Northeast region of the United States.

Dictionary definition

CONNECTICUT, noun. A New England state; one of the original 13 colonies.
CONNECTICUT, noun. 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.
CONNECTICUT, noun. One of the British colonies that formed the United States.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats