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interstate

/ˈɪntɚˌsteɪt/

interstate adjective: of, or relating to two or more states.

interstate: of, or relating to two or more states
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Adjective

interstate (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, US) Of, or relating to two or more states.
    • interstate commerce
    • interstate reciprocity

Adverb

interstate (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, US) Crossing states (usually provincial state, but also e.g. multinational sense).
    • The truck driver drove interstate to unload.

Noun

interstate (plural interstates)

  1. (US) A freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System.
    • The speed-limit increase would not apply to Delaware, where the interstates are all near populated areas.1987 March 19, Bernard Weinraub, “HOUSE BACKS A SPEED LIMIT OF 65 FOR RURAL INTERSTATES”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2024
    • There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120

interstate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

interstate in Hindi

interstate
अंतर्देशीय antardeśīya

interstate in Tamil

மாநிலங்களுக்கு இடையிலான

interstate in Urdu

انٹرسٹیٹ

interstate in Bengali

of, or relating to two or more states
আন্তঃরাজ্যিক antoḥrajjik
More languagesFewer languages
interstate in Kannada
ಅಂತರ ರಾಜ್ಯದ, ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳ ನಡುವೆ ನಡೆಯುವ

Examples of interstate in a sentence

  • Let's get off the interstate at exit 70. No, let's get off at the very next exit.
  • Driving on the interstate at night, you will see less traffic, but more big rigs.
  • This isn't an interstate highway so it must be only an intrastate road.

All 19 example sentences with interstate

Forms of interstate

Adjective
alternative formI
alternative formIH
alternative formIR
alternative formInt.
alternative formISR
Noun
pluralinterstates

Origin of interstate

From inter- + state, originally as an adjective only; the noun is by (ellipsis) from interstate highway. The noun also serves adjectivally as a (noun adjunct) in such collocations as interstate construction and interstate rest stops.

Words formed from interstate

Phrases with interstate

Questions about interstate

What does interstate mean?
Interstate means of, or relating to two or more states.
What is interstate in Hindi?
Interstate in Hindi is अंतर्देशीय (antardeśīya). See Interstate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is interstate?
Interstate can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
How do you pronounce interstate?
Interstate is pronounced /ˈɪntɚˌsteɪt/ (US).

Words near interstate in the dictionary

  1. interstaminal
  2. interstaminate
  3. interstanza
  4. interstanzaic
  5. interstapedial
  6. interstate
  7. interstate compact
  8. interstate compacts
  9. interstater
  10. interstaters
  11. interstates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: interstate (page history and authors); अंतर्देशीय (Hindi) (page history and authors); interstate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); interstate (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); interstate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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