commonwealth
commonwealth is a 12-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 24 in Scrabble and 28 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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. The whole body of people in a state; the public.
- noun. 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.
- noun. a politically organized body of people under a single government
"the state has elected a new president"
"African nations"
- 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)
Synonyms
country, land, nation, state, democracy, republic
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