COMMONWEALTHS - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Meaning 1

Part of speech: Noun

a politically organized body of people under a single government

Example: 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

Meaning 2

Part of speech: Noun

a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

Meaning 3

Part of speech: 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

Meaning 4

Part of speech: Noun

the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)