commonwealth
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
Types & categories
- state hypernym
- Puerto Rico instance hyponym
Sense 2 noun
a politically organized body of people under a single government
the state has elected a new president
Types & categories
- political unit hypernym
- commonwealth country hyponym
- developing country hyponym
- Dominion hyponym
- foreign country hyponym
- Reich hyponym
- rogue state hyponym
- suzerain hyponym
- sea power hyponym
- world power hyponym
- city state hyponym
- ally hyponym
- Eelam instance hyponym
Parts & wholes
- estate of the realm part meronym
Sense 3 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
Types & categories
- world organization hypernym
- British Commonwealth hyponym
Sense 4 noun
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Types & categories
- political system hypernym
- Weimar Republic hyponym
- parliamentary democracy hyponym
Related & opposite
- democratize derivation
- democratize derivation
- Democratic derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | state |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Puerto Rico |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | estate of the realm |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | political unit |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | commonwealth country |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | developing country |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | Dominion |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | foreign country |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | Reich |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | rogue state |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | suzerain |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | sea power |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | world power |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | city state |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | ally |
| 2 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Eelam |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | world organization |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | British Commonwealth |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | democratize |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | democratize |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | Democratic |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | political system |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Weimar Republic |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | parliamentary democracy |