Word Meanings - COMMONWEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Commonwealth. Such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal. Shak.

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• PRINCELESS
  Without a prince. Fuller.
• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• PRINCEDOM
  The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince. Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce. Milton.
• PRINCELY
  1. Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc. 2. Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.
• PRINCEHOOD
  Princeliness. E. Hall.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• PRINCESSE
  A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.
• FATHER
  OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad
• FATHER-IN-LAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• PRINCE
  1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. Wyclif . Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. Milton. Queen Elizabeth,
• PRINCELET
  A petty prince.
• PRINCEWOOD
  The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.
• PRINCESS
  1. A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. Dryden. So excellent a princess as the present queen. Swift. 2. The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family. Shak. 3. The consort of a prince; as, the
• FATHERLESS
  1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child. 2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.
• FATHERLY
  1. Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful. You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to a father.
• FATHER LONGLEGS
  See 2
• PRINCELIKE
  Princely. Shak.
• PRINCELINESS
  The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GODFATHER
  A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction. There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized, when they can be had, two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for
• FOREFATHER
  One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke. Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day on
• STEPFATHER
  The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.