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commonwealth
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Anglais
Étymologie
Nom commun
commonwealth
- Communauté, république, État indépendant.
- (États-Unis) (Rare) État des États-Unis qui s’appelle ainsi officiellement : Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvanie ou Virginie.
- Communauté religieuse organisée.
A separate society, which attacked the established religion of the empire, was obliged to adopt some form of internal policy, and to appoint a sufficient number of ministers, intrusted not only with the spiritual functions, but even with the temporal direction, of the christian commonwealth.
— (Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, F. Westly and A. H. Davis, 1835, page 192)
Dérivés
- British Commonwealth
- Commonwealth
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Commonwealth of Nations
- Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
- Commonwealth of the Bahamas
- Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)
- Commonwealth of the Philippines
- Commonwealth realm
- Commonwealth republic
Quasi-synonymes
- state (2)
Prononciation
- (États-Unis) : écouter « commonwealth [Prononciation ?] »
- \ˈkɑm.ən.ˌwɛlθ\ (États-Unis)
- \ˈkɒm.ən.ˌwɛlθ\ (Royaume-Uni)
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