commonwealth vs province

province vs commonwealth

commonwealth and province both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
commonwealth	Yes	No	No	No
province	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, province is a hypernym of commonwealth; that is, province is a word with a broader meaning than commonwealth:

commonwealth: the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
province: the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

Other hypernyms of commonwealth include state.

commonwealth (noun)	province (noun)
a politically organized body of people under a single government	the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them	the proper sphere or extent of your activities
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 province

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