Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun commonwealth_of_independent_states

1 sense of commonwealth of independent states

Sense 1
Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS -- (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)
       => world organization, world organisation, international organization, international organisation, global organization -- (an international alliance involving many different countries)