Engelsk navneord: commonwealth | |||
1. | commonwealth (om sted) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | province, state | ||
Eksempler på forekomster af mere specifikke termer | Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Porto Rico, PR, Puerto Rico | ||
2. | commonwealth (om gruppe) a politically organized body of people under a single government | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | 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. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | political entity, political unit | ||
Mere specifikke termer | 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 | ||
Eksempler på forekomster af mere specifikke termer | Eelam, Tamil Eelam | ||
Omfatter disse specifikke termer | estate, estate of the realm, the three estates | ||
3. | commonwealth (om gruppe) 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 | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | global organization, international organisation, international organization, world organisation, world organization | ||
Mere specifikke termer | British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations | ||
4. | commonwealth (om gruppe) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | democracy, republic | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | form of government, political system | ||
Mere specifikke termer | parliamentary democracy, Weimar Republic | ||