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city state vs commonwealth

commonwealth vs city state

city state and commonwealth both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
city state Yes No No No
commonwealth Yes No No No
As nouns, commonwealth is a hypernym of city state; that is, commonwealth is a word with a broader meaning than city state:
  • city state: a state consisting of a sovereign city
  • commonwealth: a politically organized body of people under a single government
Other hypernyms of city state include body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state.
city state (noun) commonwealth (noun)
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)
Difference between city state and commonwealth

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