suzerain vs commonwealth

commonwealth vs suzerain

suzerain and commonwealth both are nouns.

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

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

suzerain: a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs
commonwealth: a politically organized body of people under a single government

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

suzerain (noun)	commonwealth (noun)
a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs	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 suzerain and commonwealth

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