commonwealth

1. 1.

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

   Broaderstate

   NarrowerPuerto Rico
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsstatenationcountrylandres publicabody politic

   Broaderpolitical unit

   Narrowercommonwealth countrydeveloping countryDominionforeign countryReichrogue statesuzerainsea powerworld powercity state

   Partsestate of the realm
3. 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

   Broaderworld organization

   NarrowerBritish Commonwealth
4. 4.

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

   Synonymsdemocracyrepublic

   Broaderpolitical system

   NarrowerWeimar Republicparliamentary democracy

Other forms of commonwealth

plural

commonwealths·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about commonwealth

What does commonwealth mean?

commonwealth means "the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in commonwealth?

commonwealth has 3 syllables: com-mon-wealth. The stress falls on "com". In IPA it is /ˈkɑmənˌwɛlθ/.

What is another word for commonwealth?

Close synonyms include state, nation, country, land, res publica. 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 commonwealth a common word?

commonwealth is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with commonwealth?

1 word rhymes with commonwealth. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.