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nouna politically organized body of people under a single government
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nouna political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent themtype of:
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nouna world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
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nounthe official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
Definition that contains commonwealth
- english an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
- pr a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico
- rhodes British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa; made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe; he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902)
- fiji an independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands
- dominion one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth
- grenada an island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea; an independent state within the British Commonwealth
- minsk the capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States
- zambia a republic in central Africa; formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in 1964
- saipan the largest island in the Northern Marianas and the administrative center of the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in union with the United States
- guadalcanal a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth