CONNECTICUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Connecticut mean? 

• CONNECTICUT (noun)
  The noun CONNECTICUT has 3 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: CONNECTICUT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONNECTICUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A New England state; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Connecticut; Constitution State; CT; Ct.; Nutmeg State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Connecticut"):

Bridgeport (a port in southwestern Connecticut on Long Island Sound)

Farmington (a residential town in central Connecticut)

capital of Connecticut; Hartford (the state capital of Connecticut; located in central Connecticut on the Connecticut river; a center of the insurance business)

New Haven (a city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University)

New London (a town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound; an important whaling center in the 19th century)

Waterbury (a city in west central Connecticut)

Housatonic; Housatonic River (a river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound)

Long Island Sound (a sound between Long Island and Connecticut)

Taconic Mountains (a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont)

Holonyms ("Connecticut" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (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)

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Connecticut; Connecticut River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Connecticut" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

One of the British colonies that formed the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)

 Context examples 

"We really hadn't seen a formation process that could create things that are this dense," explained Erica Nelson of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, lead author of the study.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

A census region of the United States consisting of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

(Northeastern United States Census Region, NCI Thesaurus)

A census division of the United States consisting of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

(New England Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

Cohort members initially resided in 11 geographically dispersed states representing the Northeast (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland), Northcentral (Ohio, Michigan), the West (California) and the South (Texas, Florida); although the majority of participants still reside in the original 11 states, members of the cohort currently live in all 50 states.

(Nurses' Health Study, NCI Thesaurus)

The study, by researchers at the University of Connecticut, Virginia Commonwealth University and Purdue University, demonstrates for the first time that a forest's structural complexity is a better predictor of carbon sequestration potential than tree species diversity.

(Structural complexity in forests improves carbon capture, National Science Foundation)

Investigators at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, and their collaborators discovered a subtype of T cell (link is external)s—called T follicular helper cell 13, or Tfh13 cells — in laboratory mice bred to have a rare genetic immune disease called DOCK8 immunodeficiency syndrome.

(Scientists discover immune cell subtype in mice that drives allergic reactions, National Institutes of Health)