"commonweal" meaning in All languages combined

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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    }
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        "2": "common",
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        "t1": "public",
        "t2": "well-being"
      },
      "expansion": "common (“public”) + weal (“well-being”)",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "comun"
      },
      "expansion": "comun",
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    },
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        "2": "wele"
      },
      "expansion": "wele",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "res publica"
      },
      "expansion": "res publica",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "republic"
      },
      "expansion": "republic",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "commonwealth"
      },
      "expansion": "commonwealth",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "common (“public”) + weal (“well-being”). From c. 1450, common wele was used as a compound.\nRollison (2017) thinks that comun and wele may already have been used in collocation in 14th-century Middle English.\nBy the 1520s used by some authors as the equivalent of res publica (republic), alongside commonwealth from about the same time.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "commonweals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "commonweal (plural commonweals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "He yearns for the days when people, for reasons of the commonweal, did what they were told.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity"
      ],
      "id": "en-commonweal-en-noun-QFOdwT7t",
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          "common",
          "common"
        ],
        [
          "good",
          "good"
        ],
        [
          "public",
          "public"
        ],
        [
          "wellbeing",
          "wellbeing"
        ],
        [
          "prosperity",
          "prosperity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or archaic) The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The body politic; republic"
      ],
      "id": "en-commonweal-en-noun-mUedeM6d",
      "links": [
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          "body politic"
        ],
        [
          "republic",
          "republic"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌkɒmənˈwiːl/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "common weal"
    }
  ],
  "word": "commonweal"
}

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    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "commonwealth"
    }
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        "2": "common",
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      "expansion": "wele",
      "name": "m"
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        "2": "res publica"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "republic"
      },
      "expansion": "republic",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "commonwealth"
      },
      "expansion": "commonwealth",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "common (“public”) + weal (“well-being”). From c. 1450, common wele was used as a compound.\nRollison (2017) thinks that comun and wele may already have been used in collocation in 14th-century Middle English.\nBy the 1520s used by some authors as the equivalent of res publica (republic), alongside commonwealth from about the same time.",
  "forms": [
    {
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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    {
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        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "He yearns for the days when people, for reasons of the commonweal, did what they were told.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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          "wellbeing",
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        ],
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        "(obsolete or archaic) The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity"
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "The body politic; republic"
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          "republic",
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        ]
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˌkɒmənˈwiːl/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "common weal"
    }
  ],
  "word": "commonweal"
}