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Definition: Commonweal |
CommonwealNoun1. The good of a community. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "commonweal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
Note: Commonweal \Com"mon*weal"\, noun. [Common weal.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: CommonwealSynonym: common good (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mankind | People, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million. (commonalty); population. (inhabitant). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Commonweal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Commonweal" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
commonweal | 37 |
commonweal magazine | 9 |
commonweal theater | 5 |
commonweal foundation | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "commonweal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | e mirë e përgjithshme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | общото благо. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 公益. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مشترک المنافع (Commonwealth), خیرورفاه عمومی , اجتماع (Assemblage, Assembly, Collection, Community, Crowd, Hurricane, Milieu, Muster, Society, Turnout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοινό καλό. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | közjó (common good, common weal, general weal, public weal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yn vie chadjin, foays y clane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ommonwealcay bem público, bem da pátria. (various references) общее благо. (various references) zajedničko dobro. (various references) cuerdas comunes. (various references) det allmänna bästa. (various references) ulus (commonwealth, nation, people), kamu yararı (commonwealth, public interest, public welfare), devlet (commonwealth, government, governmental, official, political, polity, state, the community). (various references) добробут (health, success, weal, welfare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "commonweal": commonweals, commonwealth, commonwealths. (additional references) | |
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"Commonweal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: commonwealk, Commonwheal, Communeau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-m-m-n-o-o-w" | |
-3 letters: monocle, woolman, woolmen. | |
-4 letters: ammono, coelom, colone, common, cowman, cowmen, lawmen, woolen. | |
-5 letters: alone, amole, anole, camel, cameo, canoe, celom, clean, clone, clown, colon, comae, comal, comma, lance, leman, lemma, lemon, macle, macon, melon, moola, ocean, woman, women. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-m-m-n-o-o-w" | |
+1 letter: commonweals. | |
+2 letters: commonwealth. | |
+3 letters: commonwealths. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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