power vs commonwealth

commonwealth vs power

power and commonwealth both are nouns.

power is a verb but commonwealth is not a verb.

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

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

power: a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
commonwealth: a politically organized body of people under a single government

Other hypernyms of power include body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state.

power (noun)	commonwealth (noun)
possession of controlling influence	a politically organized body of people under a single government
physical strength	a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done	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
a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself	the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
a very wealthy or powerful businessman
(physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)
energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor
(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power

power (verb)	commonwealth (verb)
supply the force or power for the functioning of

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