commonwealth country

1. 1.

   any of the countries in the British Commonwealth

   Broaderstate

Questions about commonwealth country

What does commonwealth country mean?

commonwealth country means "any of the countries in the British Commonwealth".

Is commonwealth country a common word?

commonwealth country 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.