[
US
/ˈkɑmənˌwɛɫθ/
]
[ UK /kˈɒmənwˌɛlθ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒmənwˌɛlθ/ ]
NOUN
- the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
- 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
-
a politically organized body of people under a single government
African nations
students who had come to the nation's capitol
an industrialized land
the country's largest manufacturer
the state has elected a new president
How To Use commonwealth In A Sentence
- He used a specially-arranged series of interviews during the Commonwealth summit yesterday to mount a stout defence of his position.
- Well, it would be in a whole new jurisprudence so far as the prosecution of Commonwealth offences were concerned in this country.
- Can the Commonwealth detain bankrupts for the purpose of examining them, on the basis that some bankrupts are likely to flee before examination?
- There were also a huge range of aspects of Her Majesty's life - from images of her relaxing with her family and corgis, entertaining, on her royal duties, and as Head of the Commonwealth.
- Jamaica, a member of the British Commonwealth, has a bicameral parliamentary legislative system.
- The blood tests which snared three drugs cheats at last month's Winter Olympics could be missing from the anti-doping programme throughout Britain this year, including the Commonwealth Games.
- Otherwise, the Commonwealth could always legislate to say certain categories of State legislation are prohibited.
- Yet those who might write off the Commonwealth and European medallist have short memories.
- This gap is important in even-numbered years in order to accommodate the spectacle of the World Cup or the Summer Olympics, perhaps even the Commonwealth Games or the European Football championships.
- But that would be no different from somebody disinterring a 20-year-old volume of the Commonwealth Law Reports and recounting what happened in some case.