province vs commonwealth

commonwealth vs province

province and commonwealth both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of province include eparchy, American state, Italian region, Canadian province, Australian state, Malaysian state, Soviet Socialist Republic.

province (noun)	commonwealth (noun)
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation	a politically organized body of people under a single government
the proper sphere or extent of your activities	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)

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