The utility model provides a connector. The connector can prevent a female terminal metal fitting in a housing from deflecting, and, when the connector is fitted with a matching-side connector, the connector can prevent a deformation, which occurs because a front-end bar-shaped portion of a male terminal metal fitting in the matching-side connector bumps to a front end of the female terminal metal fitting, of the female terminal metal fitting. A terminal accommodating part (61) accommodating the female terminal metal fitting (40) comprises abutting bearing parts and deflection limiting protruding strips (65); the abutting bearing parts perform abutting connections through abutting-connection pieces protruding from a peripheral part of the female terminal metal fitting and limit a position of female terminal metal fitting (40) in a fitting direction; and the deflection limiting protruding strips (65) are on the same lines as oppositely-arranged positions of gaps between adjacent spring pieces (431) of the female terminal metal fitting (40), extend toward the central axis of the terminal accommodating part (61) and limit a deflection of front-end cylindrical part (43), and the cross section of each deflection limiting protruding strip (65) is set to be in the shape of an approximate triangle the width of which narrows slowly from the outer diameter side to the inner diameter side.