1. commonwealth - noun
· the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
2. commonwealth - noun
· 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"
Synonym(s): state, nation, country, land, res_publica, body_politic
Hypernym(s): political_unit, political_entity
3. commonwealth - noun
· 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
Hypernym(s): world_organization, world_organisation, international_organization, international_organisation, global_organization
4. commonwealth - noun
· a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Synonym(s): democracy, republic
Hypernym(s): political_system, form_of_government
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