Commonwewalth of Nations - demonym

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Is there a word that means inhabitant of the Commonwealth of Nations or inhabitant of the British Commonwealth?
 

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A Commonwealthee? :silly:
 

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Nothing springs to mind.
 

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I don't believe there's a demonym for this.

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But all is not lost! I learned a new word: demonym

Thanks for the thread. Sorry we didn't have an answer.
 

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But all is not lost! I learned a new word: demonym.

Which I couldn't find in the dictionary, BTW. Did you make it up for this thread or is it in use in demographics, anthropology or some such field?
 

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Which I couldn't find in the dictionary, BTW. Did you make it up for this thread or is it in use in demographics, anthropology or some such field?
There is a short section about the word here. I've learned the word from Wikipedia. They have those infoboxes about cities there, like in this article, and the word is used in them.
 

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They are all subjects of the Queen. Nominally, anyway.
 
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