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