commonwealth

Nouns

  • (n) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
  • (n) 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
    body politic, country, nation, res publica, state, land,
  • (n) 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
  • (n) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them republic, democracy,

Synonyms

body politic country nation res publica state land republic democracy

Words of close approximity

commonwealth country Commonwealth Day Commonwealth of Australia Commonwealth of Dominica Commonwealth of Independent States Commonwealth of Nations Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Commonwealth of the Bahamas