English dictionary
commonwealth
nounAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
noun
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
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
noun
- the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
Example 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