Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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city state | Yes | No | No | No |
commonwealth | Yes | No | No | No |
city state (noun) | commonwealth (noun) |
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a state consisting of a sovereign city | a politically organized body of people under a single government |
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | |
a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | |
the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) |