What is the meaning of commonwealth?

The official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico. )
A politically organized body of people under a single government.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: state, nation, country, land, res publica, body politic
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.
A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
- synonyms: democracy, republic

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