Connecticut vs river

Connecticut and river both are nouns.

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

Connecticut (noun)	river (noun)
a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies	a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
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