meaning of commonwealth
1. A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.
2. The whole body of people in a state; the public.
3. Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I. , in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.
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