commonwealth
English Thesaurus
1. a politically organized body of people under a single government (noun.group)
| hyponym | : | commonwealth country, |
| definition | : | any of the countries in the British Commonwealth (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | developing country, |
| definition | : | a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | dominion, |
| definition | : | one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | foreign country, |
| definition | : | any state of which one is not a citizen (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | reich, |
| definition | : | the German state (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | suzerain, |
| definition | : | a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | sea power, |
| definition | : | a nation that possesses formidable naval strength (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | ally, |
| definition | : | a friendly nation (noun.group) |
| instance hyponym | : | eelam, tamil eelam, |
| definition | : | the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | estate, estate of the realm, the three estates, |
| definition | : | a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights (noun.group) |
2. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them (noun.group)
| hyponym | : | weimar republic, |
| definition | : | the German republic founded at Weimar in 1919 (noun.group) |
3. 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.group)
| hyponym | : | british commonwealth, commonwealth of nations, |
| definition | : | an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown (noun.group) |
4. the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) (noun.location)
| hypernym | : | province, state, |
| definition | : | the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation (noun.location) |
5. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them (noun.group)
| derivation | : | democratic, |
| definition | : | belong to or relating to the Democratic Party (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | democratic, |
| definition | : | belong to or relating to the Democratic Party (adj.pert) |
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