American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

New 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

Long Island Sound - a sound between Long Island and Connecticut

U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

river - a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles"

Colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States