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Noun commonwealth has 4 senses

commonwealth - the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
--₁ is a kind of state, province
--₁ has particulars: Puerto Rico, Porto Rico, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, PR
state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic - 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"
--₂ is a kind of political unit
--₂ has parts: estate, estate of the realm
--₂ has particulars:
Dominion; Reich; rogue state, renegade state, rogue nation; suzerain; sea power; world power, major power, great power, power, superpower; city state; ally
commonwealth - 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
--₃ is a kind of world organization, world organisation, international organization, international organisation, global organization
--₃ has particulars: British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations
democracy, republic, commonwealth - a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
--₄ is a kind of political system, form of government
--₄ has particulars: Weimar Republic; parliamentary democracy