CT - a New England state; one of the original 13 coloniesNew England - a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut Bridgeport - a port in southwestern Connecticut on Long Island Sound Farmington - a residential town in central Connecticut capital of Connecticut, Hartford - the state capital of Connecticut; located in central Connecticut on the Connecticut river; a center of the insurance business New Haven - a city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University New London - a town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound; an important whaling center in the 19th century Waterbury - a city in west central Connecticut Housatonic, Housatonic River - a river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound |