connecticut

1. 1.

   a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies

   SynonymsNutmeg StateConstitution StateCTCt.

   BroaderAmerican state

   Part ofUnited StatesNew England

   PartsBridgeportFarmingtonHartfordNew HavenNew LondonWaterbury
2. 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

   SynonymsConnecticut River

   Broaderriver

   Part ofUnited States
3. 3.

   one of the British colonies that formed the United States

   BroaderColony

Other forms of connecticut

plural

connecticuts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about connecticut

What does connecticut mean?

connecticut means "a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in connecticut?

connecticut has 4 syllables: con-nec-ti-cut. The stress falls on "nec". In IPA it is /kəˈnɛtəkət/.

What is another word for connecticut?

Close synonyms include Nutmeg State, Constitution State, CT, Ct., Connecticut River. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is connecticut a common word?

connecticut is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.