commonwealth
/ˈkɒmənˌwelθ//ˈkɑmənˌwɛlθ/
- n.
- 共和国；联邦；国民整体
中文释义来自 ECDICT
构词拆解
词源说明
From common (“public”) + wealth (“well-being”). From c. 1450 as common wele (commonweal). In the form common-wealth (common welthe) from c. 1520, used by Tyndale in the sense "secular society" in particular, for which other authors preferred publike weal. Also from the 1520s treated as a synonym or loan-translation of res publica (republic) (Rollison 2017:67f).
释义
名词noun
- 1obsoleteThe well-being of a community.
- 2The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.
- 3Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth.