Commonwealth ¹

Definition: 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.

Commonwealth ²

Definition: The whole body of people in a state; the public.

Commonwealth ³

Definition: Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in

commonwealth ⁴

Definition: 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"

commonwealth ⁵

Definition: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

commonwealth ⁶

Definition: 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

commonwealth ⁷

Definition: the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)