COMMONWEALTH
\kˈɒmənwˌɛlθ], \kˈɒmənwˌɛlθ], \k_ˈɒ_m_ə_n_w_ˌɛ_l_θ]\
Definitions of COMMONWEALTH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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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
By Princeton University
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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"
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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
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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The commonweal; the body politic; the whole body of people in a state; a republic. The Commonwealth, in English history, the form of government which existed under Oliver Cromwell.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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