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单词 commonwealth of nations
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Commonwealth of Nations
6. With the and capital initial. More fully Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth of Nations). An international association consisting of the United Kingdom and other countries, most of which were formerly part of the British Empire.The term British Commonwealth of Nations was officially adopted at the Imperial Conference of 1926. The association was constituted as the Commonwealth of Nations by the London Declaration of 1949, which affirmed the British monarch as its head. It is now chiefly known as the Commonwealth.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > aggregate of sovereign states under one rule > Commonwealth or former British Empire
British Empire1701
empire1769
commonwealth1917
1884 Ld. Rosebery Speech 18 Jan. in Adelaide Observer 26 Jan. 34/2 The British Empire is a commonwealth of nations.]
1917 J. C. Smuts Brit. Commonw. Nations 6 The British Empire is much more than a State... We are a whole world by ourselves, consisting of many nations and states... Beyond that we come to the so-called Dominions..who have been evolved on the principles of your constitutional system, now almost independent states, and who all belong to this group, to this community of nations, which I prefer to call the British Commonwealth of nations.
1926 Rep. Comm. Inter-Imperial Relations in Times 22 Nov. 9/1 They are autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
1937 Discovery Feb. 33/2 The field of organised interchange of scientific effort may one day be wider even than the British Commonwealth.
1974 Times 24 Dec. 8/1 In the afternoon the Queen addresses the Commonwealth.
2019 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 3 Oct. a10/6 The royal couple was greeted in southern Africa with interest but nothing like the minute-by-minute coverage that meets them in some other parts of the Commonwealth.
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