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commonweal.

The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˌkɒmənˈwiːl/
  1. The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity.

    archaic
  2. The body politic; republic.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English comun wele, commen wele, comune wele, equivalent to common (“public”) + weal (“well-being”). By the 1520s used by some authors as the equivalent of res publica (republic), alongside commonwealth from about the same time.

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