A commonwealth refers to any group of people organized under a single government, particularly a republic. If you live in the United States of America, you live in a commonwealth.
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.
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"
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)
n.
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.
n.
The whole body of people in a state; the public.
n.
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.
Commonwealth
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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.
Usage Examples
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.
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Other Usage ExamplesI have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.