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English noun: commonwealth | |||
| 1. | commonwealth (location) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | province, state | ||
| Instance hyponym | Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Porto Rico, PR, Puerto Rico | ||
| 2. | commonwealth (group) a politically organized body of people under a single government | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | political entity, political unit | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ally, city state, city-state, commonwealth country, developing country, Dominion, foreign country, great power, major power, power, Reich, renegade state, rogue nation, rogue state, sea power, superpower, suzerain, world power | ||
| Instance hyponym | Eelam, Tamil Eelam | ||
| Part holonym | estate, estate of the realm, the three estates | ||
| 3. | commonwealth (group) 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | global organization, international organisation, international organization, world organisation, world organization | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations | ||
| 4. | commonwealth (group) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | ||
| Synonyms | democracy, republic | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | form of government, political system | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | parliamentary democracy, Weimar Republic | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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