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commonwealth

/ commonwealth /
noun

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
Type of:
world organization world organisation international organization
Kinds of:
British Commonwealth Commonwealth of Nations
noun Sense 2
the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
Type of:
state province
Kinds of:
Puerto Rico Porto Rico Commonwealth of Puerto Rico PR
noun Sense 3
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Opposites:
autocracy autarchy
Type of:
political system form of government
Kinds of:
Weimar Republic parliamentary democracy
Derived:
democratize democratise
noun Sense 4
a politically organized body of people under a single government
"the state has elected a new president"
"African nations"
"students who had come to the nation''s capitol"
"the country''s largest manufacturer"
"an industrialized land"
Type of:
political unit
Kinds of:
Dominion Reich rogue state renegade state rogue nation
Semantic Complexity
97%
Sense Count
4
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
25
Times Searched
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world organization world organisation international organization British Commonwealth Commonwealth of Nations state province Puerto Rico Porto Rico Commonwealth of Puerto Rico PR political system