COMMONWEALTH
Scrabble letter values: C3O1M3M3O1N1W4E1A1L1T1H4 = 24
Definition
- noun the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico).
- noun a politically organized body of people under a single government. — synonyms: state, nation, country, land, res_publica, body_politic
- 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.
- noun a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them. — synonyms: democracy, republic
Examples
- “the state has elected a new president”
- “African nations”
- “students who had come to the nation's capitol”