COMMONWEALTH

state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic

(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”

democracy, republic, commonwealth

(noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

commonwealth

(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

commonwealth

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

commonwealth (plural commonwealths)

(obsolete) The well-being of a community.

The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.

Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth.

Proper noun

Commonwealth or the Commonwealth

The Commonwealth of Nations, a loose confederation of nations based around the former British Empire.

(Great Britain) The Commonwealth of England, which existed from 1649 to 1660, under Cromwell.

(Australia) Australia, the Commonwealth of Australia, often referring to its federal government.

(in Kentucky) Kentucky, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, often referring to its government.

(in Massachusetts) Massachusetts, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, often referring to its government.

(in Pennsylvania) Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, often referring to its government.

(in Virginia) Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, often referring to its government.

Source: Wiktionary

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Com"mon*wealth`, n. Etym: [Common + wealth well-being.]

1. A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton.

Note: This term is applied to governments which are considered as free or popular, but rarely, or improperly, to an absolute government. The word signifies, strictly, the common well-being or happiness; and hence, a form of government in which the general welfare is regarded rather than the welfare of any class.

2. The whole body of people in a state; the public.

3. (Eng. Hist.)

Definition: Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

Syn.

– State; realm; republic.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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