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Connecticut

con·nec·ti·cut

UK/kəˈnɛt.ɪ.kət/ US/kəˈnɛt.ɪ.kət/ fairly common

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a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies

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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

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3.

one of the British colonies that formed the United States

Origin

Said to be from Mohegan-Pequot quinnitukqut (“at the long tidal river”), from *kwen- (“long”) + *-ehtekw (“tidal river”) + *-enk (locative). The spelling perhaps arose from association with connect.

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