interstate

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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

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:
      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.

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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.

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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:
      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.
Interstate 90 at an interchange with Interstate 271 in Greater Cleveland

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Latin

Verb

interstāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of interstō