Intercolonial
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Between colonies not-comparable
"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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt […] in 1858 I shipped on an intercolonial vessel, under engagement to proceed to the Swan River settlement."
Example
More examples"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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt […] in 1858 I shipped on an intercolonial vessel, under engagement to proceed to the Swan River settlement."
Etymology
From inter- + colonial.
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