Hartford

[hahrt-ferd]

noun

1. (George) Huntington, 2nd, 1911–2008, U.S. businessman and patron of the arts.

2. a port in and the capital of Connecticut, in the central part, on the Connecticut River.

Hartford

/ ˈhɑːtfəd /

noun

1. a port in central Connecticut, on the Connecticut River: the state capital. Pop: 124 387 (2003 est)

Hartford

1. Capital of Connecticut.

Center of the insurance industry.

Example Sentences

Ms. Lewis, who taught art history for many years at Trinity College, Hartford, writes about art for the Journal.

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During the season, Berard rents and lives in an apartment in Hartford, except when he’s called up and put in a White Plains hotel.

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This most recent sale in Hartford took place September 4 through September 7; tickets went on sale about a month prior and sold out in minutes.

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They married, and their life in Hartford, Conn., padded by Livy’s family wealth, was a gracious dream, as the greatest of Twain’s age — Grant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Helen Keller — sought his company.

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My own first summer job as a kid in search of after-school pocket money was picking cigar tobacco on a Connecticut farm just north of Hartford.

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