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foreign country vs commonwealth

commonwealth vs foreign country

foreign country and commonwealth both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
foreign country Yes No No No
commonwealth Yes No No No
As nouns, commonwealth is a hypernym of foreign country; that is, commonwealth is a word with a broader meaning than foreign country:
  • foreign country: any state of which one is not a citizen
  • commonwealth: a politically organized body of people under a single government
Other hypernyms of foreign country include body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state.
foreign country (noun) commonwealth (noun)
any state of which one is not a citizen 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 foreign country and commonwealth

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