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美音:[´kɔmən´welθ ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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n.国民整体,共和国,联邦

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commonwealth


/'kɒmənwelθ; `kɑmən,wɛlθ/
n
1 [C]
(a) independent State or community 独立的国家或团体、集体
*measures for the good of the commonwealth 有利于集体的措施.
(b) group of States that have chosen to be politically linked (政治上相结合的国家组成的)集团
*the Commonwealth of Australia 澳大利亚联邦.
2 the Commonwealth [sing] the association consisting of the UK and various independent States (previously subject to Britain) and dependencies 英联邦(由联合王国及原所辖的自治省和属地组成的联邦).

commonwealth


n
the Commonwealth
an organization of about 50 countries that were once part of the British empire
 the Commonwealth Games
[C]
an association of countries with political or economic connections
commonwealth of
 a commonwealth of nations
[C]AmE
the official legal title of some US states