international

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun any of several international socialist organizations
  2. adjective concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations
  3. adjective from or between other countries

Etymology

From inter- + national. Introduced in modern English by Jeremy Bentham in his An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1780.

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