"commonwealth" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkɑmənˌwɛlθ/ [Canada, US], /ˈkɔmənˌwɛlθ/ [General-Australian], /ˈkɒmənˌwelθ/ [New-Zealand], /ˈkɒmənˌwɛlθ/ [UK] Forms: commonwealths [plural]
Etymology: From common (“public”) + wealth (“well-being”). From c. 1450 as common wele (commonweal). In the form common-wealth (common welthe) from c. 1520, used by Tyndale in the sense "secular society" in particular, for which other authors preferred publike weal. Also from the 1520s treated as a synonym or loan-translation of res publica (republic) (Rollison 2017:67f). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|common|wealth|t1=public|t2=well-being}} common (“public”) + wealth (“well-being”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} commonwealth (plural commonwealths)
  1. (obsolete) The well-being of a community. Tags: obsolete
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  2. The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.
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  3. Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth. Translations (form of government): gemenebes [singular] (Afrikaans), komònwels (Antillean Creole), كُومُنْوِلْث (kumunwilṯ) [masculine] (Arabic), mancomunitat [feminine] (Catalan), лянбон (li͡anbon) [Dungan] (Chinese), 聯邦 (Chinese Mandarin), 联邦 (liánbāng) (Chinese Mandarin), gemenebest [neuter] (Dutch), komunumo (Esperanto), kansainyhteisö (Finnish), kansojenyhteisö (Finnish), communauté (French), richesse commune (French), თანამეგობრობა (tanamegobroba) (Georgian), Staatenbund [masculine] (German), κοινοπολιτεία (koinopoliteía) [feminine] (Greek), קהילייה (qehilia) [feminine] (Hebrew), nemzetközösség (Hungarian), államközösség (Hungarian), államszövetség (note: of Australia) (Hungarian), persemakmuran (Indonesian), comhlathas [masculine] (Irish), 連邦 (renpō) (alt: れんぽう) (Japanese), コモンウェルス (komonwerusu) (Japanese), достастық (dostastyq) (Kazakh), សហធន (sak hak thon) (Khmer), 연방 (yeonbang) (alt: 聯邦) [South-Korea] (Korean), 련방 (ryeonbang) (alt: 聯邦) [North-Korea] (Korean), respublica [feminine] (Latin), civitas [feminine] (Latin), komanwel (Malay), कॉमनवेल्थ (kŏmanveltha) (Marathi), samvelde [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), samvelde [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), مشترکالمنافع (moštarak-ol-manâfe') (Persian), wspólnota [feminine] (Polish), comunidade [feminine] (Portuguese), содру́жество (sodrúžestvo) [Commonwealth, neuter] (Russian), сою́з (sojúz) (note: of Australia) [masculine] (Russian), comunidad [feminine] (Spanish), mancomunidad [feminine] (Spanish), estado libre asociado [masculine] (Spanish), samvälde [neuter] (Swedish), komonwelt (Tagalog), муштаракулманофеъ (muštarakulmanofeʾ) (Tajik), thịnh vượng chung (alt: 盛旺喠) (Vietnamese)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: common-wealth [obsolete] Related terms: commonweal

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "sense": "form of government",
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      "ipa": "/ˈkɒmənˌwelθ/",
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}
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    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
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    "Terms with Indonesian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
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    "Terms with Kazakh translations",
    "Terms with Khmer translations",
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    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Tagalog translations",
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          "text": "Remeber I saye yt ye were at that tyme wt oute Christ and were reputed aliantes from the comen welth [πολιτεία (politeía)] of Israel and were straugers fro the testamentes of promes and had no hope and were with out god in this worlde.",
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          "ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
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          "text": "1649, Act of the Long Parliament\nBe it declared and enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authoritie of the same That the People of England and of all the Dominions and Territoryes thereunto belonging are and shall be and are hereby constituted, made, established, and confirmed to be a Commonwealth and free State And shall from henceforth be Governed as a Commonwealth and Free State by the supreame Authoritie of this Nation, the Representatives of the People in Parliam[ent] and by such as they shall appoint and constitute as Officers and Ministers under them for the good of the People and that without any King or House of Lords."
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      "code": "af",
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      "sense": "form of government",
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      "word": "gemenebes"
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      "word": "聯邦"
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      "word": "თანამეგობრობა"
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      "sense": "form of government",
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      "sense": "form of government",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "form of government",
      "word": "nemzetközösség"
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      "sense": "form of government",
      "word": "államközösség"
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      "sense": "form of government",
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      "sense": "form of government",
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      "sense": "form of government",
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      "alt": "れんぽう",
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      "sense": "form of government",
      "word": "連邦"
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      "sense": "form of government",
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      "roman": "sak hak thon",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "word": "សហធន"
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      "alt": "聯邦",
      "code": "ko",
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      "sense": "form of government",
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      "word": "연방"
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      "sense": "form of government",
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      "word": "련방"
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "form of government",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "respublica"
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "form of government",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "civitas"
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      "code": "ms",
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      "sense": "form of government",
      "word": "komanwel"
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      "roman": "kŏmanveltha",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "word": "कॉमनवेल्थ"
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "form of government",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "samvelde"
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      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "samvelde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "moštarak-ol-manâfe'",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "word": "مشترکالمنافع"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "wspólnota"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "comunidade"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
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        "of the United Kingdom"
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      "sense": "form of government",
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        "neuter"
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      "word": "содру́жество"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "sojúz",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "сою́з"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "comunidad"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "mancomunidad"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "form of government",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "estado libre asociado"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "form of government",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "samvälde"
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    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "word": "komonwelt"
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      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "muštarakulmanofeʾ",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "word": "муштаракулманофеъ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "盛旺喠",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "form of government",
      "word": "thịnh vượng chung"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "commonwealth"
  ],
  "word": "commonwealth"
}

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