Commonwealth

n. group of people united in a common cause; people of a country; democratic state

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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Noun
1. the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
(hypernym) state, province
(hyponym) Puerto Rico, Porto Rico, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, PR
2. 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"
(synonym) state, nation, country, land, res publica, body politic
(hypernym) political unit
(hyponym) Dominion
(part-meronym) estate, estate of the realm
3. 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
(hypernym) world organization, world organisation, international organization, international organisation, global organization
(hyponym) British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations
4. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
(synonym) democracy, republic
(hypernym) political system, form of government
(hyponym) Weimar Republic

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

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