Nutmeg State

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Nutmeg State - a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies Connecticut, Constitution State, CT U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, 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 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 Taconic Mountains - a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont