| commonweal | (n) ความสงบสุข |
| commonweal | Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may form a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split. |
| Commonweal | n. [ Common + weal. ] Commonwealth. [ 1913 Webster ] Such a prince, |
| Commonwealth | n. [ Common + wealth well-being. ] The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ This term is applied to governments which are considered as free or popular, but rarely, or improperly, to an absolute government. The word signifies, strictly, the common well-being or happiness; and hence, a form of government in which the general welfare is regarded rather than the welfare of any class. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| commonwealth | (n) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) |
| commonwealth | (n) 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 |
| commonwealth country | (n) any of the countries in the British Commonwealth |
| commonwealth day | (n) British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, Syn. May 24, Empire day |
| commonwealth of independent states | (n) an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991, Syn. CIS |