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Definition: Housatonic

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound.[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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Date "Housatonic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)

Common Expressions: Housatonic

Expressions Definition
Housatonic Council Housatonic Council #69, Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1920. (references)
Housatonic Railroad The Housatonic Railroad is a Class III railroad operating in southwestern New England. It was chartered in 1983 to operate a short section of ex-New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in northwestern Connecticut, and has since expanded north and south, as well as west into New York State. (references)
Housatonic River A river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Housatonic River The Housatonic River is a river, approximately 144 mi (230 km) long, in western Massachusetts and central Connecticut in the United States. It drains an area of southwestern New England into Long Island Sound. Its watershed is just to the west of the watershed of the lower Connecticut River. (references)
USS Housatonic (1861) Uss Housatonic was a screw sloop-of-war of the United States Navy, named for one of the rivers of New England which rises in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and flows southward into Connecticut before emptying into Long Island Sound a little east of Bridgeport, Connecticut. (references)

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Extended Definition: Housatonic

Housatonic

Housatonic may refer to one of the following.

  • Housatonic, Massachusetts.
  • Housatonic Railroad, a railroad that operated 1836-1892, and a separate company started in 1983 in western Connecticut.
  • Housatonic River, a river in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut.
  • Housatonic Valley Regional High School, a regional high school located in Falls Village, Connecticut.
  • USS Housatonic (1861), launched 20 November 1861 by the Boston Navy Yard and the first ship ever sunk by a submarine.
  • USS Housatonic (SP-1697), built in 1899 by Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Norfolk, Virginia.
  • USS Housatonic (AO-35), a tanker completed in November 1941 by the Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania.
  • Housatonic (dialect) a dialect of Munsee
  • Housatonic Community College - a college in southern Connecticut.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Housatonic". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: Housatonic

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
USS Housatonic 36     Housatonic 5
List of crossings of the Housatonic River 31     Housatonic (dialect) 2
Housatonic Railroad 27     Housatonic Area Regional Transit 20
Housatonic Area Regional Transit 20     Housatonic Community College 4
Housatonic River 16     Housatonic Council 10
USS Housatonic (AO-35) 12     Housatonic Railroad 27
Housatonic Council 10     Housatonic River 16
USS Housatonic (1861) 10     Housatonic Valley Regional High School 7
Housatonic Valley Regional High School 7     List of crossings of the Housatonic River 31
Housatonic 5     USS Housatonic 36
Housatonic Community College 4     USS Housatonic (1861) 10
Housatonic (dialect) 2     USS Housatonic (AO-35) 12

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).