Толковый словарь английского языка - commonwealth

noun Date: 15th century commonweal 2, a nation, state, or other political unit: as, one founded on law and united by compact or tacit agreement of the people for the common good, one in which supreme authority is vested in the people, republic, 3. capitalized the English state from the death of Charles I in 1649 to the Restoration in 1660, protectorate 1b, a state of the U.S., a federal union of constituent states, an association of self-governing autonomous states more or less loosely associated in a common allegiance (as to the British crown), a political unit having local autonomy but voluntarily united with the U.S.