Crossword clues for connecticut
connecticut
- Name whose reading hints at 17- and 59-Across
- A New England state
- One of the original 13 colonies
- 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
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
U.S. state, originally the name of the river, said to be from Mohican (Algonquian) quinnitukqut "at the long tidal river," from *kwen- "long" + *-ehtekw "tidal river"\n+ *-enk "place."\n\n
WordNet
Wikipedia
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the United States. Connecticut is also often grouped along with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-State area. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital city is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport. The state is named after the Connecticut River, a major U.S. river that approximately bisects the state. The word "Connecticut" is derived from various anglicized spellings of an Algonquian word for "long tidal river".
Connecticut is the third smallest state by area, the 29th most populous, and the fourth most densely populated of the 50 United States. It is known as the " Constitution State", the " Nutmeg State", the "Provisions State", and the "Land of Steady Habits". It was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States. Much of southern and western Connecticut (along with the majority of the state's population) is part of the New York metropolitan area: three of Connecticut's eight counties are statistically included in the New York City combined statistical area, which is widely referred to as the Tri-State area. Connecticut's center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County, which is also located within the Tri-State area.
Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch. They established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers, called Huys de Goede Hoop. Initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers. The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by England. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony. The Connecticut and New Haven Colonies established documents of Fundamental Orders, considered the first constitutions in North America. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.
The Connecticut River, Thames River, and ports along the Long Island Sound have given Connecticut a strong maritime tradition, which continues today. The state also has a long history of hosting the financial services industry, including insurance companies in Hartford and hedge funds in Fairfield County. As of the 2010 Census, Connecticut features the highest per-capita income, Human Development Index (0.962), and median household income in the United States.
Connecticut may refer to:
- Connecticut, a state in the United States
- Connecticut Colony, an English colony located in British America
- Connecticut River, a tributary of Long Island Sound
- USS Connecticut, any of seven US Navy ships named for the state
- University of Connecticut, the largest public university in the state
- Connecticut Huskies, the athletic program of the University of Connecticut
Usage examples of "connecticut".
Silas Deane, a Connecticut delegate who joined the procession, assured John Adams that the Congress was to be the grandest, most important assembly ever held in America.
There were British raids along the coast of Connecticut that summer, shortly before Adams returned, and apprehension along coastal Massachusetts that a major British strike there might be in the offing.
All through Massachusetts and Connecticut people lined the road to cheer Adams as one of their own, a New England man.
Perry Goodall brought new bees down in March from his house in Connecticut to replenish his urban hive, half of which had swarmed.
It was the bservation hive from his town house, repopulated with bees from Connecticut.
The friend who was waiting to meet her in Connecticut called Poppa Bowditch, who called the local police, who called the Connecticut police.
But no brakeman disturbed him on that jolting journey deep into the marshy shore line where Connecticut paralleled the Sound.
Presbyterian Church and the Congregationalist clergy of the little colony of Connecticut seems like a disproportioned one.
Morose professors from Drakestone College in Connecticut did not seem the type to relish the company of disreputable street bums.
Durmond Pilverman resided in Beaker Lake, Connecticut, and taught at Drakestone College.
Mystic, Connecticut, they changed into something dressier than their work clothes.
He walked along Connecticut for a few blocks, jostling with the rush-hour crowd, smiling goofily to himself, his feet never touching the concrete.
Greenwich Library, in Connecticut, for answering many queries with unfailing courtesy and for efficient service in interlibrary loans.
In 1969, a doctor at a Yale University lab in New Haven, Connecticut, who was studying Lassa fever came down with it.
They were Mainers, and any man of sense knew that when it came to Yankee traders a Mainer could skin a man from Massachusetts or Connecticut coming and going.