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Connecticut

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kəˈnɛt.ɪ.kət//
  • Canada//kəˈnɛt.ɪ.kət//
  • Canada/[kəˈnɛɾ.ɪ.kət]/
  • Australia//kəˈnet.ɪ.kət//
  • Australia/[kəˈneɾ.ɪ.kət]/

A state in the northeastern United States.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A state in the northeastern United States.

    Authorities in Connecticut are investigating after swastikas were found drawn on a high school campus in Stamford for the second time since Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel earlier this month, the school district said.

    When they something so WASPphobic you have to hit them with the Connecticut stare

  2. 2

    A river in New England, United States.

Etymology

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.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).