Commonwealth

The English noun commonwealth dates originally from the fifteenth century. The original phrase "common wealth" or "the common weal" comes from the old meaning of "wealth" which is "well-being". The term literally meant "common well-being". Thus commonwealth originally meant a state or nation-state governed for the common good as opposed to an authoritarian state governed for the benefit of a given class of owners. The word was a calque on the Latin word res publica meaning "public affairs" or "the state", from which the English word republic arises.
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n. commonwealth, group of people united in a common cause

n. commonwealth, group of people united in a common cause

n. British Commonwealth of Nations, former name of the Commonwealth of Nations