commonwealth of independent states

1. 1.

   an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991

   SynonymsCIS

   Broaderworld organization

Questions about commonwealth of independent states

What does commonwealth of independent states mean?

commonwealth of independent states means "an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991".

What is another word for commonwealth of independent states?

Close synonyms include CIS. 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 of independent states a common word?

commonwealth of independent states 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.