eng: commonwealth

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Meaning
means	(noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) commonwealth
means	(noun) 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" state, commonwealth, land, res publica, body politic, nation, country
means	(noun) 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 commonwealth
means	(noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them democracy, republic, commonwealth