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intercolonial

intercolonial adjective: between colonies.

Adjective

intercolonial (not comparable)

  1. Between colonies
    • […] in 1858 I shipped on an intercolonial vessel, under engagement to proceed to the Swan River settlement.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...
    • 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...2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 36

Origin of intercolonial

From inter- + colonial.

Words formed from intercolonial

Questions about intercolonial

What does intercolonial mean?
Intercolonial means between colonies.
What part of speech is intercolonial?
Intercolonial is an adjective.

Words near intercolonial in the dictionary

  1. intercollegiates
  2. intercollegium
  3. intercollicular
  4. intercolline
  5. intercollision
  6. intercolonial
  7. intercolonially
  8. intercolony
  9. intercolor
  10. intercolumn
  11. intercolumnal

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