interstate

English

Alternative forms

• (freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System): I, IH (Texas), IR (Ohio; rare), Int. (obsolete), ISR (obsolete)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɚˌsteɪt/, [ˈɪɾ̃ɚˌsteɪ̯t]

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Audio (US):

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Adjective

interstate (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US and Australia) Of, or relating to two or more states.

   Coordinate terms: state ((attributively)), intrastate, intraprovincial; interprovincial; federal; federated; national, nationwide, countrywide; suprastate, supranational; international, transnational, intercountry, continental, transcontinental, intercontinental

   interstate commerce

   interstate reciprocity

   • 1983 April 27, “STATES CAN TRANSFER PRISONERS TO OTHER STATES, COURT HOLDS”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The difference between intrastate and interstate prison transfers, Justice Blackmun said, "is a matter of degree, not of kind," while confinement in a mental hospital is qualitatively different than an ordinary prison sentence.

Derived terms

• interstate compact

Adverb

interstate (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US and Australia) Crossing states (usually provincial state, but also e.g. multinational sense).

   The truck driver drove interstate to unload.

Translations

of, or relating to two or more states

• Bengali: আন্তঃরাজ্যিক (antoḥrajjik)
• Bulgarian: междущатски (mežduštatski)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 州際的 / 州际的 (zhōujì de)

• Esperanto: interŝtata
• Estonian: riikidevaheline
• French: interétatique (fr)
• Georgian: შტატთაშორისი (šṭaṭtašorisi)
• German: zwischenstaatlich (de)
• Hungarian: államközi (hu)
• Latvian: starpvalstu
• Macedonian: меѓудр́жавен (meǵudŕžaven)
• Polish: międzystanowy (pl)
• Portuguese: interestadual (pt)
• Russian: междушта́тный (ru) (mežduštátnyj), межшта́тный (ru) (mežštátnyj)
• Spanish: interestatal

See also

• Pan-American
• pan-Indian
• trans-Siberian

 

Noun

interstate (plural interstates)

1. (US) A freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System.
   • 1987 March 19, Bernard Weinraub, “HOUSE BACKS A SPEED LIMIT OF 65 FOR RURAL INTERSTATES”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     The speed-limit increase would not apply to Delaware, where the interstates are all near populated areas.

   • 2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120:

     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.

Interchange of Interstate 90, 94 and 290 in Chicago.

Translations

U.S. freeway

• Chinese: 州际公路 f (zhōu jì gōnglù)
• French: inter-états f
• German: Autobahn (de)
• Macedonian: а́втопат m (ávtopat), автостра́да f (avtostráda)
• Portuguese: interestadual (pt) f
• Russian: автомагистра́ль (ru) f (avtomagistrálʹ), автостра́да (ru) f (avtostráda)
• Spanish: interestatal f

Latin

Verb

interstāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of interstō