n 1: a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Connecticut, Nutmeg State, Constitution State, CT]
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 [syn: Connecticut, Connecticut River]
3: one of the British colonies that formed the United States
[syn: Connecticut]