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
   - state, nation, country, land, res publica, body politic 
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
   - democracy, republic

Derived forms: commonwealths

Type of: form of government, global organisation [Brit], global organization, international organisation [Brit], international organization, political entity, political system, political unit, province, state, world organisation [Brit], world organization

Encyclopedia: Commonwealth Commonwealth, WI Commonwealth, Wisconsin

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