commonwealth
英英释意
- 1. the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
- 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"
- 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
- 4. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them