the Commonwealth
Meaning
The Commonwealth is a voluntary group of nations, mostly former British territories. Officially the Commonwealth of Nations, it fosters cooperation, democracy, and development.
Synonyms
Examples
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like an 'Animal Farm' where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?
The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
This man talked like he could build the barns by himself, like he could till the soil by himself. And he failed to realize that wealth is always a result of the commonwealth.