- commonwealth - the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
--1 is a kind of state, province
--1 has particulars: Puerto Rico, Porto Rico, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, PR- state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic - a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"
--2 is a kind of political unit
--2 has parts: estate, estate of the realm
--2 has particulars:Dominion; Reich; rogue state, renegade state, rogue nation; suzerain; sea power; world power, major power, great power, power, superpower; city state; ally - commonwealth - 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
--3 is a kind of world organization, world organisation, international organization, international organisation, global organization
--3 has particulars: British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations- democracy, republic, commonwealth - a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
--4 is a kind of political system, form of government
--4 has particulars: Weimar Republic; parliamentary democracy - state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic - a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"