commonwealth, n.
(commonwealths)
freq. cnt. 4
(commonwealths)
freq. cnt. 4
a politically organized body of people under a single government
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 125 freq. cnt.: 68 freq. cnt.: 33 freq. cnt.: 21 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1
body politic commonwealth country land nation res publica state
sample sentences
"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"
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commonwealth country
developing country
Dominion
foreign country
Reich
rogue state, renegade state, rogue nation
suzerain
sea power
great power, power, world power, major power, superpower
city state, city-state
ally
part meronym
hypernym
instance hyponym
the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
<noun.location> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
commonwealth
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hypernym
instance hyponym
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 3
commonwealth democracy republic
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
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hypernym
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
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commonwealth