commonwealth

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noun

1. the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
state, province
• Instance Hyponyms:
Puerto Rico, Porto Rico, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, PR
2. a politically organized body of people under a single government (Freq. 2)
- 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
• Syn:
state, nation, country, land, res publica, body politic
• Hypernyms:
political unit, political entity
• Hyponyms:
commonwealth country, developing country, Dominion, foreign country, Reich,
rogue state, renegade state, rogue nation, suzerain, sea power, world power,
world power, great power, power, superpower, city state,
city-state, ally
• Instance Hyponyms:
Eelam, Tamil Eelam
• Part Meronyms:
estate of the realm, estate, the three estates
3. 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
• Hypernyms:
world organization, world organisation, international organization, international organisation, global organization
• Hyponyms:
British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations
4. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
• Syn:
democracy, republic
• Derivationally related forms:
Democratic (for: democracy), democratize (for: democracy)
• Hypernyms:
political system, form of government
• Hyponyms:
Weimar Republic, parliamentary democracy

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  democracy, republic, state, nation, country, land, res publica, body politic