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Definition of 'Commonwealth'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) commonwealth
the people of a nation or state; the body politic.

2.  commonwealth
a state in which the supreme power is held by the people; a republican or democratic state.

3.  commonwealth
(cap.) a group of sovereign states and their dependencies associated by their own choice and linked with common objectives and interests.

4.  commonwealth
the Commonwealth,

5.  commonwealth
(cap.) a federation of states:
the Commonwealth of Australia.

6.  commonwealth
(cap.) a self-governing territory associated with the U.S.: official designation of Puerto Rico.

7.  commonwealth
(cap.) the English government from the abolition of the monarchy in 1649 until the establishment of the Protectorate in 1653, sometimes extended to include the restoration of Charles II in 1660.

8.  commonwealth
(cap.) the official designation of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

9.  commonwealth
any group of persons united by some common interest.

10.  commonwealth
Obs. the public welfare.

Etymology: (1375–1425)

Definition of 'Commonwealth'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) commonwealth
the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)

2. (noun) state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic
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"

3. (noun) commonwealth
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

4. (noun) democracy, republic, commonwealth
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

Definition of 'Commonwealth'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Commonwealth
a state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws

2. (noun) Commonwealth
the whole body of people in a state; the public

3. (noun) Commonwealth
specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659

Translation of 'Commonwealth'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: an association of states who have joined together for their common good the Commonwealth of Australia.
Afrikaans: statebond	Arabic: رابِطَة الشُّعوب البريطان	Bulgarian: обединение на държави
Brazilian: comunidade	Czech: společenství, republika	German: das Gemeinwesen, der Staa
Danish: statsforbund; statssamfun	Greek: κοινοπολιτεία	Spanish: commonwealth
Estonian: liit,ühendus	Farsi: کشور فدرال	Finnish: liittovaltio
French: confédération, commonweal	Hebrew: חֶבֶר הָעַמִים הַבּרִיטִי	Hindi: राष्ट्रमंडल
Croatian: zajednica država	Hungarian: nemzetközösség	Indonesian: persemakmuran
Icelandic: samveldi	Italian: confederazione, commonwea	Japanese: 連邦
Korean: 연방	Lithuanian: sandrauga, federacija	Latvian: federācija; valstu savien
Malay: komanwel	Dutch: gemenebest	Norwegian: samvelde
Polish: wspólnota, federacja	Persian: کشور فدرال	Pashto: مشتراك المنافع دولت اّزاد
Portuguese: comunidade	Romanian: (con)federaţie	Russian: союз; содружество
Slovak: konfederácia; spoločenstv	Slovenian: državna skupnost britansk	Serbian: komonvelt
Swedish: samvälde	Thai: สมาพันธรัฐ; เครือจักรภพ	Turkish: uluslar topluluğu
Taiwanese: 聯邦	Ukrainian: співдружність (націй)	Urdu: دولتِ مشترکہ
Vietnamese: khối thịnh vượng chung	Chinese: 联邦
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