<B>commonwealth, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the people who make up a nation; citizens of a state. <DD><B> 2. </B>a nation in which the people have the right to make the laws; republic. <BR> <I>Ex. Brazil, Australia, the United States, and Germany are commonwealths.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of the states of the United States, especially Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. In these four states, Commonwealth is the official title. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) a number of persons united by some common interest. <BR> <I>Ex. the commonwealth of scholars.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Obsolete.) public welfare; general good or advantage. </DL>
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<B>Commonwealth, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the republican government in England under Oliver Cromwell and later his son. It lasted from the execution of Charles I in 1649 to 1660 and included the Protectorate. <BR>expr. <B>the Commonwealth,</B> <DD><B> 1. </B><B>=Commonwealth of Independent States.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=Commonwealth of Nations.</B> </DL>
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<B>Commonwealth Day,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a holiday in parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, celebrated on the second Monday in March. It was formerly called <I>Empire Day</I> and <I>Victoria Day</I> and was observed on May 24, the anniversary of the birthday of Queen Victoria. </DL>
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<B>Commonwealth of Independent States,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of 11 republics of the former Soviet Union including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Moldova, Russia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. </DL>
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<B>Commonwealth of Nations,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of countries and their dependencies that were formerly under British rule and that are now independent but joined economically to the United Kingdom, including Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Botswana, Canada, Cyprus, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, the United Kingdom, Western Samoa, and Zambia. </DL>
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<B>commorancy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an abiding; abode; residence. </DL>
<B>commotion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>bustle or stir; confusion. <BR> <I>Ex. the commotion of the market place. That perpetual contest for wealth which keeps the world in commotion (Samuel Johnson).</I> (SYN) ferment. <DD><B> 2. </B>public disturbance; rising; tumult. <BR> <I>Ex. The crowd's commotion increased with the appearance of the troops.</I> (SYN) unrest. <DD><B> 3. </B>violent movement; agitation; turbulence. <BR> <I>Ex. the commotion of a storm.</I> (SYN) turmoil. </DL>
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<B>commotional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with commotion. </DL>
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<B>commove, </B>transitive verb, <B>-moved,</B> <B>-moving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to move violently; agitate; excite. <BR> <I>Ex. The air is so commoved by your voice (George Eliot).</I> </DL>
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<B>communal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of a community; public. <BR> <I>Ex. The town swimming pool is communal property.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>owned jointly by all; used or participated in by all members of a group or community. <BR> <I>Ex. The Plains Indian has both a more plentiful and more regular supply of meat and skins because of the communal buffalo hunt than he could provide by his own unaided efforts (Beals and Hoijer).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of or having to do with the common people. <DD><B> 4. </B>of or having to do with a commune. adv. <B>communally.</B> </DL>
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<B>communalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a theory or system of government according to which each commune is self-governing and the state is a federation of communes. <DD><B> 2. </B>the doctrine or practice of communal living, as in a religious community; communism. noun <B>communalist.</B> </DL>
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<B>communalistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with communalism. </DL>
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<B>communality, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the condition of being communal. <DD><B> 2. </B>the feeling of kinship deriving from common purpose or endeavor. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the communality of agricultural nations seeking to industrialize themselves ... (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>communalize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make communal; convert into communal property. noun <B>communalization.</B> noun <B>communalizer.</B> </DL>
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<B>communard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a communalist. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who lives in a commune. <BR> <I>Ex. Most of the new communards are fleeing what they regard as the constriction, loneliness, materialism and the hypocrisy in straight society (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>Communard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member or adherent of the Commune of Paris in 1871. </DL>
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<B>commune</B> (1), verb, <B>-muned,</B> <B>-muning,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to talk intimately. <BR> <I>Ex. Feasting with the great, communing with the literary (Washington Irving).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an intimate talk; communion. </DL>
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<B>commune</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the smallest division for local government in France, Belgium, Italy, and several other European countries. <DD><B> b. </B>the people or government of a commune. <DD><B> 2. </B>a community or the people comprising it. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a place where a group of people live together communally. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] ... operates a commune, an apartment where anyone can stay for a night, a week, or as long as he likes (New York Times). An abandoned lumber town has been turned into a little commune by a bunch of hippies (Punch).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a group of people living together. <DD><B> 4. </B>(formerly) a unit of local government in Communist China, comprising a group of collective farms organized to carry out planned communal work, including industrial, administrative, and educational projects. <DD><B> 5. </B>(formerly in Russia) the mir. </DL>
<B>Commune, </B>noun. <B>the,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a revolutionary group that governed Paris from 1792 to 1794. <DD><B> 2. </B>a similar group that governed Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871. </DL>
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<B>communicability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being communicable. </DL>
