CONNECTICUT RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Connecticut River mean? 

• CONNECTICUT RIVER (noun)
  The noun CONNECTICUT RIVER has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: CONNECTICUT RIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONNECTICUT RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Connecticut; Connecticut River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Connecticut River" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (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)