commonwealth

Noun

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

• 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

• 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
    

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  democracy , republic , state , nation , country , land , res publica , body politic