Connecticut

[ kuh-net-i-kuht ]

noun

1. a state in the northeastern United States. 5,009 sq. mi. (12,975 sq. km). : Hartford. : CT (for use with zip code), Conn., Ct.
2. a river flowing south from northern New Hampshire along the boundary between New Hampshire and Vermont and then through Massachusetts and Connecticut into Long Island Sound. 407 miles (655 km) long.

Connecticut

/ kəˈnɛtɪkət /

noun

1. a state of the northeastern US, in New England. Capital: Hartford. Pop: 3 483 372 (2003 est). Area: 12 973 sq km (5009 sq miles) AbbreviationConn.with zip codeCT
2. a river in the northeastern US, rising in N New Hampshire and flowing south to Long Island Sound. Length: 651 km (407 miles)

Connecticut

1. State in the northeastern United States; southernmost of the New England states, bordered by Massachusetts to the north, Rhode Island to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and New York to the west. Its capital is Hartford , and its largest city is Bridgeport.

Notes

One of the thirteen colonies .

Example Sentences

The other photo that hangs there prominently is of Marsh cutting his snippet of the net after George Mason stunned Connecticut in the regional final to advance to the 2006 Final Four.

From Washington Post

Some states, including Connecticut and Nebraska, have removed this population entirely from priority consideration, using age alone to determine who goes first.

From Washington Post

House Bill 5645, like Indiana’s 1312, would be based on gross revenues generated from ads served to Connecticut residents, but the precise numbers have not yet been laid out.

From Digiday

Cardona, a former fourth-grade teacher, is Connecticut’s education commissioner.

From Washington Post

In early 2000, I went to Walker’s Connecticut office to interview him about how it works, and to get the goods on his plans to roll it out across the country.

From Fortune

Robert M. Dowling is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University.

From The Daily Beast

Malloy, meanwhile, in his first term as governor of Connecticut, has delivered on a wish list of lefty priorities.

From The Daily Beast

Connecticut was the first state to raise it to $10.10 an hour after President Obama called for it.

From The Daily Beast

He is scheduled to continue campaigning on Monday, attending rallies for Republican candidates in Florida and Connecticut.

From The Daily Beast

That number is about the population of small towns like Phuket in Thailand or Danbury in Connecticut: no small achievement, that.

From The Daily Beast

He graduated at Yale college, and at the commencement of hostilities was appointed to the chief command of the Connecticut troops.

From Project Gutenberg

He was for many years judge of a court in Connecticut, and is known as the author of the popular poem, McFingal.

From Project Gutenberg

Indian battle at Turner's falls, on Connecticut river above Greenfield.

From Project Gutenberg

The Connecticut tobacco grower is in all respects a man of genuine refinement and nobility of soul.

From Project Gutenberg

Who is not carried back to good old times as he reads this sketch of Connecticut goin' to meetin' fifty years ago?

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