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Commonwealth
Commonwealth Com"mon*wealth` (?; 277), n. [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.) 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.
Meaning of Commonwealth from wikipedia
- A
commonwealth is a
traditional English term for a
political community founded for the
common good. The noun "
commonwealth",
meaning "public welfare, general...
- The
Commonwealth of Nations,
often referred to as the
British Commonwealth or
simply the
Commonwealth, is an
international ****ociation of 56
member states...
-
Commonwealth Day is the
annual celebration of the
Commonwealth of Nations, held on the
second Monday in March.
While the date
holds some
official status...
- Australia,
officially the
Commonwealth of Australia, is a
country comprising the
mainland of the
Australian continent, the
island of
Tasmania and numerous...
- The
Commonwealth Games is a
quadrennial international multi-sport
event among athletes from the
Commonwealth of Nations,
which consists mostly, but not...
- A
Commonwealth realm is a
sovereign state in the
Commonwealth of
Nations that has the same
monarch and head of
state as the
other realms. The current...
- The
Commonwealth of
Nations is a
voluntary ****ociation of 56
sovereign states,
referred to as
Commonwealth countries. Most of them were
British colonies...
- The Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth, also
referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the
First Polish Republic (Polish: I Rzeczpospolita), was a
federative real...
- The
Commonwealth of
England was the
political structure during the
period from 1649 to 1660 when
England and Wales,
later along with
Ireland and Scotland...
- Virginia,
officially the
Commonwealth of Virginia, is a
state in the
Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic
regions of the
United States between the
Atlantic Coast...
