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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991;
[syn: Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Commonwealth of Independent States n 1: an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991 [syn: Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS]