commonwealth vs city state

city state vs commonwealth

commonwealth and city state both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
commonwealth	Yes	No	No	No
city state	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, city state is a hyponym of commonwealth; that is, city state is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than commonwealth:

commonwealth: a politically organized body of people under a single government
city state: a state consisting of a sovereign city

Other hyponyms of commonwealth include commonwealth country, developing country, Dominion, foreign country, Reich, renegade state, rogue nation, rogue state, suzerain, sea power, great power, major power, power, superpower, world power, city-state, ally.

commonwealth (noun)	city state (noun)
a politically organized body of people under a single government	a state consisting of a sovereign city
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 commonwealth and city state

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