commonwealths in English
noun
1
an independent country or community, especially a democratic republic.
It was a liberal empire and a democratic commonwealth , and its aim, as with America in the Philippines, was to prepare its components for self-government.
2
an international association consisting of the UK together with states that were previously part of the British Empire, and dependencies. The British monarch is the symbolic head of the Commonwealth.
3
the general good.
The notion of a commonwealth , of a common good, is disappearing.
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