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British Commonwealth of Nations

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noun

  1. the former name of the Commonwealth

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The British Commonwealth of Nations currently has 54 countries in its membership.

From BBC

The Commonwealth Games are held every four years involving 70-plus countries from the British Commonwealth of nations.

From Seattle Times

Canada, a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, might make an appropriate part-time home.

From Washington Post

The 18th century statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke, for example, spoke of a “Commonwealth of Europe”, long before the British Commonwealth of Nations was even thought of.

From Time

You never shared the true meaning of the project which Winston Churchill, speaking on your behalf, set out in Zurich in 1946 with his incredible words: "We must build a kind of United States of Europe … Great Britain, the British Commonwealth of Nations, mighty America – and, I trust, Soviet Russia … must be the friends and sponsors of the new Europe and must champion its right to live."

From The Guardian