Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

intercolonial

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English

Syllables: in-ter-colo-nial
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Between colonies

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

From inter- + colonial.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: inter

Derived Forms

intercolonially

Questions

What does intercolonial mean?: Between colonies
Where does intercolonial come from?: From inter- + colonial.

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