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   Com·mon·wealth

   /ˈkämənˌwelTH/

   

   noun

   • 1. an independent country or community, especially a democratic republic.
   • ▪ an aggregate or grouping of countries or other bodies: "a union or commonwealth of democratic, self-governing countries"
   • ▪ a community or organization of shared interests in a nonpolitical field: "the Christian commonwealth"
   • ▪ a self-governing unit voluntarily grouped with the US, such as Puerto Rico: "the island became a commonwealth of the United States in 1986"
   • ▪ a formal title of some of the states of the US, especially Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
   • ▪ the title of the federated Australian states.
   • ▪ the republican period of government in Britain between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660.
   • 2. an international association consisting of the UK together with states that were previously part of the British Empire, and dependencies. The British monarch is the symbolic head of the Commonwealth.
   • 3. the general good. archaic

   Word Origin late Middle English (originally as two words, denoting public welfare; compare with commonweal): from common + wealth.

   Scrabble Points: 24

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2. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › commonwealthCommonwealth - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

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   Definitions of commonwealth. noun. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them. synonyms: democracy, republic. see more. noun. a politically organized body of people under a single government. synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state. see more.

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   5 days ago · Togo. 2022. The Commonwealth is a a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as a symbolic head of their association.

4. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishCOMMONWEALTH | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   COMMONWEALTH definition: 1. a group of countries with the same political or economic aims: 2. a country or part of a…. Learn more.

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   Britannica Dictionary definition of COMMONWEALTH. 1. [count] : a group of countries or states that have political or economic connections with one another — often + of. a commonwealth of states. 2. a the Commonwealth : a U.S. state — used officially of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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   Definition of commonwealth noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishCOMMONWEALTH definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   5 days ago · 1. proper noun. The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule . 2. countable noun. Commonwealth is used in the official names of some countries, groups of countries, or parts of countries. ...the Commonwealth of Australia. [ + of]

8. www.britannica.com › topic › commonwealth-political-scienceCommonwealth | Federalism, Sovereignty & Decentralization

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   Commonwealth, a body politic founded on law for the common “weal,” or good. The term was often used by 17th-century writers, for example, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, to signify the concept of the organized political community. For them it meant much the same as either civitas or res publica did.