From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
Connecticut
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