Connecticut vs American state

Connecticut and American state both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Connecticut	Yes	No	No	No
American state	Yes	No	No	No

Connecticut (noun)	American state (noun)
a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies	one of the 50 states of the United States
one of the British colonies that formed the United States, with capital Hartford or Hartford and New Haven
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