connecticut

English Thesaurus

1. a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	american state,
definition	:	one of the 50 states of the United States (noun.location)

part holonym	:	bridgeport,
definition	:	a port in southwestern Connecticut on Long Island Sound (noun.location)

part holonym	:	farmington,
definition	:	a residential town in central Connecticut (noun.location)

part holonym	:	capital of connecticut, hartford,
definition	:	the state capital of Connecticut; located in central Connecticut on the Connecticut river; a center of the insurance business (noun.location)

part holonym	:	new haven,
definition	:	a city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University (noun.location)

part holonym	:	new london,
definition	:	a town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound; an important whaling center in the 19th century (noun.location)

part holonym	:	waterbury,
definition	:	a city in west central Connecticut (noun.location)

part holonym	:	housatonic, housatonic river,
definition	:	a river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound (noun.object)

part holonym	:	long island sound,
definition	:	a sound between Long Island and Connecticut (noun.object)

part holonym	:	taconic mountains,
definition	:	a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont (noun.object)

part meronym	:	america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa,
definition	:	North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 (noun.location)

part meronym	:	new england,
definition	:	a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut (noun.location)

2. one of the British colonies that formed the United States (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	colony,
definition	:	one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States (noun.location)

3. 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 (noun.object)

instance hypernym	:	river,
definition	:	a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) (noun.object)

part meronym	:	america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa,
definition	:	North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 (noun.location)

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