commonwealth

IPA: kˈɑmʌnwɛɫθ

(obsolete) The well-being of a community.
The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.
Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth of Nations, a loose confederation of nations based around the former British Empire.
(Britain) The Commonwealth of England, which existed from 1649 to 1660, under Cromwell.
(Australia) Australia, the Commonwealth of Australia, often referring to its federal government.
(in Kentucky) Kentucky, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, often referring to its government.
(in Massachusetts) Massachusetts, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, often referring to its government.
(in Pennsylvania) Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, often referring to its government.
(in Virginia) Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, often referring to its government.

Examples of "commonwealth" in Sentences

They're at home with what I call a commonwealth of being.
Any sane person, which by definition excludes any resident of Montgomery County, knows that the commonwealth is vastly superior.
The commonwealth is now the fifth largest wine-producing state in the country and the seventh-largest commercial grape producer.
Utah has beat out Virginia on Forbes magazine's list of the best states for business, knocking the commonwealth from the top ranking it has held for the past four years.
They occupied what he called the commonwealth cemetery, and lying next to them, with their headstones facing Mecca, were Muslim dead from Libya, Algeria, Sudan and India.