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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 com·mon·wealth /-ˌwɛlθ ||ˌwɛltθ/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Com·mon·wealth n.
    The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.   --Milton.
 Note:This term is applied to governments which are considered as free or popular, but rarely, or improperly, to an absolute government. The word signifies, strictly, the common well-being or happiness; and hence, a form of government in which the general welfare is regarded rather than the welfare of any class.
 2. The whole body of people in a state; the public.
 Syn: -- State; realm; republic.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

      n 1: the official name of some states in the United States
           (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and
           Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
      2: a politically organized body of people under a single
         government; "the state has elected a new president";
         capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an
         industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land,
          res publica, body politic]
      3: 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
      4: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body
         of citizens who can elect people to represent them [syn: democracy,
          republic] [ant: autocracy]