Main entry: res publica, state, country, commonwealth, body politic, nation, land
Definition: a politically organized body of people under a single government
Usage: 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
Main entry: democracy, republic, commonwealth
Definition: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Main entry: commonwealth
Definition: 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
Main entry: commonwealth
Definition: the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)