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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin — more at republic Date: circa 1898 1. commonwealth, state, republic 2. commonweal