New Commonwealthn.
/ˌnjuː ˈkɒmənwɛlθ/, U.S. /ˌn(j)u ˈkɑmənˌwɛlθ/ With singular agreement. The countries of the British Commonwealth which have become independent since 1945.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > aggregate of sovereign states under one rule > Commonwealth or former British Empire > part of
Oceana1886
New Commonwealth1958
Old Commonwealth1965
1958 I. Jennings (title) Problems of the New Commonwealth.
1959 Jrnl. Politics 21 132 The ‘New’ or ‘Second’ Commonwealth came into being after World War II and consists of India, Pakistan, Ceylon, and Malaya.
1964 Listener 6 Feb. 219/1 A respected voice from the new Commonwealth, that of Professor Rajan of the Indian School of International Studies, declared that [etc.].
1973 Times 4 Oct. 4/7 About 547,000 people whose parents were born in the New Commonwealth live in Greater London.
1982 R. Littlewood & M. Lipsedge Aliens & Alienists i. 17 Since the 1960s the migration of people from the New Commonwealth has dropped.
1999 B. Crick in R. English & C. Townshend State ix. 226 It is significant that fellow citizens from the new Commonwealth call themselves..‘Black Britons’ or ‘Black British’, but rarely if ever ‘Black English’, ‘Black Welsh’ or ‘Black Scots’.
Compounds
General attributive.Used esp. of people from the countries of the New Commonwealth, or those whose parents came from such countries, sometimes as a euphemism for ‘non-white’.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [adjective]
blackOE
coloured1758
native1827
non-white1867
non-European1870
Indo-African1896
woggy1941
wog1948
New Commonwealth1964
1958 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 52 461 The new Commonwealth countries of India, Pakistan and Ceylon.]
1964 S. A. de Smith New Commonw. & its Constitutions iv. 137 In a new Commonwealth country there is a presumption against leaving the power of appointment exclusively in the hands of the executive.
1975 Times 28 Feb. 3/2 The total New Commonwealth population in Britain.
1976 Times 27 May 16/4 It would go a long way towards helping..to understand..if others would stop saying ‘New Commonwealth’ when they mean something like ‘coffee-coloured’.
1994 A. Roberts Eminent Churchillians (1995) iv. 232 It was Labour's natural constituency, the urban working class and trade unionists, who were expected to bear the brunt of large-scale New Commonwealth immigration.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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