commonwealths
- 1Plural of commonwealth.
Political thinkers have long sketched imaginary commonwealths governed by reason rather than force.
After the revolution, the former provinces reorganized themselves as independent commonwealths.
Note
Only the common-noun meanings take a plural: states, polities and republics, written in lowercase (imaginary commonwealths, independent commonwealths). The capitalized names each mean one body and stay singular: the Commonwealth of Nations, the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Commonwealth of England proclaimed in 1649. The old sense of a community's well-being is obsolete, so it does not turn up in the plural.
commonwealths is a form of commonwealth
commonwealth, noun: A whole society, especially a secular one, organized as a political community or state. Full entry
- Forms
- commonwealthcommonwealths plural
- Spelling
- commonwealth → commonwealths: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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