搜尋結果
commonwealth
- IPA[ˈkämənˌwelTH]
美式
- an independent country or community, especially a democratic republic.;an aggregate or grouping of countries or other bodies
noun: commonwealth, plural noun: commonwealths
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. an independent country or community, especially a democratic republic.
- ▪ an aggregate or grouping of countries or other bodies a union or commonwealth of democratic, self-governing countries
- ▪ a community or organization of shared interests in a nonpolitical field the Christian commonwealth the commonwealth of letters
- ▪ a self-governing unit voluntarily grouped with the US, such as Puerto Rico the island became a commonwealth of the United States in 1986
- ▪ a formal title of some of the states of the US, especially Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
- ▪ the title of the federated Australian states.
- ▪ the republican period of government in Britain between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660.
- 2. an international association consisting of the UK together with states that were previously part of the British Empire, and dependencies. The British monarch is the symbolic head of the Commonwealth.
- 3. archaic the general good.