Commonwealth
nounid
35552·updated May 18, 2026verified
the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
polysemous
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- democracystate
- plural
- Commonwealths
- possessive
- Commonwealth's
- pluralpossessive
- Commonwealths'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- §2
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- §3
- 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
- §4
- the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
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