Commonwealth

1. n. 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.
2. n. 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.
3. n. The whole body of people in a state; the public.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.