commonwealth : Idioms & Phrases


british commonwealth

  • noun an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown
    British Commonwealth.
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commonwealth country

  • noun any of the countries in the British Commonwealth
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commonwealth day

  • noun British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth
    Empire day; May 24.
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commonwealth of australia

  • noun a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
    Australia.
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commonwealth of dominica

  • noun a country on the island of Dominica
    Dominica.
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commonwealth of independent states

  • noun an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
    CIS.
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commonwealth of nations

  • noun an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown
    British Commonwealth.
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commonwealth of puerto rico

  • noun a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico; PR; Porto Rico.
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commonwealth of the bahamas

  • noun island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort
    Bahamas; Bahama Islands.
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