Connecticut vs Colony

Connecticut and Colony both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Connecticut	Yes	No	No	No
Colony	Yes	No	No	No

Connecticut (noun)	Colony (noun)
a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies	one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original 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