british commonwealth

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsCommonwealth of Nations

   Broadercommonwealth

Questions about british commonwealth

What does british commonwealth mean?

british commonwealth means "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".

What is another word for british commonwealth?

Close synonyms include Commonwealth of Nations. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is british commonwealth a common word?

british commonwealth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.