intercolonial

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

inter- +‎ colonial

Adjective[edit]

intercolonial (not comparable)

  1. Between colonies
    • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVIII, [1]
      [] in 1858 I shipped on an intercolonial vessel, under engagement to proceed to the Swan River settlement.
    • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 36:
      These outlaws, [Mitford] Mathews infers, were groups of backwoodsmen who stole goods and perhaps even operated crime syndicates on an intercolonial scale. As the Cochrane fragment attests, crackers had reputations for being ill-mannered, arrogant, treacherous, and cruel, stealing from Indians and propertied white colonists alike.

Translations[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From inter- +‎ colonial.

Adjective[edit]

intercolonial (feminine intercoloniale, masculine plural intercoloniaux, feminine plural intercoloniales)

  1. intercolonial

Further reading[edit]

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French intercolonial.

Adjective[edit]

intercolonial m or n (feminine singular intercolonială, masculine plural intercoloniali, feminine and neuter plural intercoloniale)

  1. intercolonial

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