intercolonial

English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ colonial.

Adjective

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,

     […] 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.

Derived terms

• intercolonially

Translations

between colonies

Portuguese: intercolonial

French

Etymology

From inter- +‎ colonial.

Adjective

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

1. intercolonial

Further reading

• “intercolonial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French intercolonial.

Adjective

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

1. intercolonial

Declension

Declension of intercolonial

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	intercolonial		intercolonială		intercoloniali	intercoloniale
	definite	intercolonialul		intercoloniala		intercolonialii	intercolonialele
genitive- dative	indefinite	intercolonial		intercoloniale		intercoloniali	intercoloniale
	definite	intercolonialului		intercolonialei		intercolonialilor	intercolonialelor