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"

  synonyms : body politic , country , land , nation , res publica , state

• (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

  The Indian government is a commonwealth. -added by naila_inlas

• (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

  The countries owed their allegiance to the Commonwealth. -added by naila_inlas

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

  Massachusetts is a part of the commonwealth. -added by naila_inlas

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