New Haven

American  

noun

1. a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.

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New Haven British  

noun

1. an industrial city and port in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound: settled in 1638 by English Puritans, who established it as a colony in 1643; seat of Yale University (1701). Pop: 124 512 (2003 est)

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New Haven Cultural  

1. City in southern Connecticut.

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Location of Yale University.

Example Sentences

Teachers in New Haven Unified in Union City in Alameda County struck for 14 days in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

In November 2025, the latest month for which data are available, home prices grew the most in New Haven, Conn., Syracuse, N.Y., and Scranton, Pa., according to a report by Intercontinental Exchange.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026

“It’s much easier to fix one person,” said Declan Hill, an expert on match-fixing at the University of New Haven, “than it is to fix a team.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

In New Haven, Conn., the school’s conspicuous absence from the crosshairs has become a subject of intense campus speculation—among professors, students and even parents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

But within days of being together again in New Haven, in an apartment he’d rented on Howe Street with friends, they’d begun fighting, both admitting in the end that something had changed.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri