单词 | commonwealth |
释义 | com·mon·wealth /'kä-mən-ˌwelth/ n 1: a nation, state, or other political unit: as a: one founded on law and united by compact or tacit agreement by the people for the common good b: one in which supreme authority is vested in the people c: republic 2: a state of the U.S. — used officially of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia 3 often cap: an association of self-governing autonomous states more or less loosely associated in a common allegiance (as to the British crown) 4 often cap: a political unit having local autonomy but voluntarily united with the U.S. — used officially of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands |
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