international

See also: International and internațional

English

Alternative forms

• int'l (abbreviation)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.təˈnæʃ.(ə.)n(ə)l/, [ˌɪntəˈnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ɫ]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.(t)ɚˈnæʃ.(ə.)n(ə)l/, [ˌɪntɚˈnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ɫ], [ˌɪɾ̃ɚˈnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ɫ]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æʃənəl

Adjective

international (comparative more international, superlative most international)

1. Of or having to do with more than one nation.
   1. between or among nations

      an international discussion

   2. participated in by two or more nations

      an international competition

   3. common to, or affecting, two or more nations.

      an international rule

   4. serving two or more nations

      an international airport

2. Of or concerning the association called the International.
3. Independent of national boundaries; common to all people.
   • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

     It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.

   the atmosphere is an international resource.

   the international community of scholars.

4. Foreign; of another nation.

   an international student

   • 2014 October 27, Steve Ginsburg, “More international players than ever before, league says”, in Reuters:

     The number of international players in the National Basketball Association has increased 10 percent from one year ago, the league said on Monday.

Derived terms

• customary international law
• international acre
• international affairs
• international airport
• International Atomic Time
• international auxiliary language
• international call prefix
• international call sign
• international candle
• international community
• International Criminal Court
• International Falls
• international foot
• international football
• international humanitarian law
• internationalise, internationalize
• international law
• international mile
• international nonproprietary name
• international orange
• international order
• international organisation
• international organization
• international phonetic alphabet
• international relations
• international reply coupon
• international rules football
• international salute
• international school
• international scientific vocabulary
• international socialist
• international standard
• international student
• international studies
• International Style
• international system
• international unit
• international waters
• int'l, intl
• one-day international
• private international law
• public international law

 

Translations

between, concerning, or transcending multiple nations

Albanian: ndërkombëtar (sq), internacional Arabic: دُوَلِيّ m (duwaliyy) Armenian: միջազգային (hy) (miǰazgayin) Asturian: internacional Azerbaijani: beynəlxalq (az), beynəlmiləl Bashkir: халыҡара (xalıqara) Basque: nazioarteko, internazional Belarusian: міжнаро́дны (mižnaródny), інтэрнацыяна́льны (internacyjanálʹny) Bengali: আন্তর্জাতিক (bn) (antorjatik) Bikol Central: pangkinaban Breton: etrebroadel (br) Bulgarian: междунаро́ден (bg) (meždunaróden), интернациона́лен (bg) (internacionálen) Burmese: နိုင်ငံတကာ (my) (nuingngamta.ka) Catalan: internacional (ca) Cebuano: internasyonal Cherokee: ᎡᎶᎯ (chr) (elohi), ᎠᏰᎵᏚᎾᏙᏢᏒ (ayelidunadotlvsv) Chinese: Cantonese: 國際／国际 (gwok3 zai3) Hokkien: 國際／国际 (zh-min-nan) (kokchè) Mandarin: 國際／国际 (zh) (guójì) Chukchi: ымваратэн (ymvaratėn) Crimean Tatar: halqara Czech: mezinárodní (cs) m Danish: international (da) Dutch: internationaal (nl) Esperanto: internacia Estonian: rahvusvaheline Faroese: altjóða Finnish: kansainvälinen (fi) French: international (fr) m Galician: internacional (gl) Georgian: საერთაშორისო (saertašoriso), ინტერნაციონალური (inṭernacionaluri), სახელმწიფოთაშორისი (saxelmc̣ipotašorisi), სახელმწიფოთშორისი (saxelmc̣ipotšorisi) (alternative form) German: international (de), zwischenstaatlich (de) Greek: διεθνής (el) m (diethnís) Gujarati: આંતરરાષ્ટ્રીય (āntarrāṣṭrīya) Haitian Creole: entènasyonal Hebrew: בֵּינְלְאֻמִּי \ בינלאומי (beinl'umí) Hindi: अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय (antarrāṣṭrīya) Hungarian: nemzetközi (hu) Iban: entarabansa Icelandic: alþjóðlegur (is) Indonesian: mancanegara (id), antarabangsa (id), internasional (id) Interlingua: international Irish: idirnáisiúnta Italian: internazionale (it) Japanese: 国際的な (ja) (こくさいてきな, kokusaiteki na) Kazakh: халықаралық (xalyqaralyq), интернационалдық (internasionaldyq) Khmer: អន្តរជាតិ (ʼɑntaʼraʼ ciət) Komi-Zyrian: войтыркостса (vojtyrkostsa) Korean: 국제(國際) (ko) (gukje), 국제적(國際的) (ko) (gukjejeok) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: navneteweyî (ku) Kyrgyz: эл аралык (ky) (el aralık), интернационалдык (ky) (internatsionaldık) Lao: ສາກົນ (sā kon), ລະຫວ່າງຊາດ (la wāng sāt), ນານາຊາດ (nā nā sāt), ນານາປະເທດ (nā nā pa thēt) Latin: internātiōnālis Latvian: starptautisks, internacionāls Lithuanian: tarptautinis Macedonian: меѓународен (meǵunaroden), интернациона́лен (internacionálen) Malay: antarabangsa (ms), internasional (ms) Malayalam: അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര (ml) (antārāṣṭra), അന്തർദേശീയ (ml) (antaṟdēśīya) Manx: eddyr-ashoonagh Maori: aowhānui, tauhonoao Marathi: आंतरराष्ट्रीय (āntararāśṭrīya) Mongolian: Cyrillic: олон улсын (olon ulsyn) Norwegian: Bokmål: internasjonal (no) Nynorsk: internasjonal Occitan: internacional Pashto: نړيوال (ps) (naṛəywãl), بين الاقوامي (baynolaqwāmí), بين المللي (ps) (baynolmelalí), انټرنېشنل (entarnešnál) Persian: بین‌المللی (fa) (beyno-lmelali), انترناسیونال (fa) (anternâsionâl) Polish: międzynarodowy (pl), internacjonalny Portuguese: internacional (pt) Romanian: internațional (ro) Russian: междунаро́дный (ru) (meždunaródnyj), интернациона́льный (ru) (intɛrnacionálʹnyj) Sanskrit: सर्वदेशीय (sa) (sarvadeśīya), अन्ताराष्ट्रिय (antārāṣṭriya) Scottish Gaelic: eadarnàiseanta Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: међуна́роднӣ Roman: međunárodnī (sh) Sicilian: ntirnazziunali (scn) Slovak: medzinárodný (sk) Slovene: mednaroden Spanish: internacional (es) Swahili: kimataifa (sw) Swedish: internationell (sv) Tagalog: pandaigdig Tajik: байналхалқӣ (baynalxalqi), байналмилалӣ (baynalmilali), интернатсионалӣ (internatsionali) Tamil: சர்வதேச (ta) (carvatēca) Tatar: халыкара (xalıqara), милләтара (millätara) Telugu: అంతర్జాతీయ (te) (antarjātīya) Thai: สากล (th) (sǎa-gon), ระหว่างประเทศ (rá-wàang-bprà-têet), ข้ามชาติ (kâam-châat), นานาชาติ (naa-naa-châat) Tibetan: རྒྱལ་སྤྱི (rgyal spyi), རྒྱལ་འབྲེལ (rgyal 'brel) Turkish: uluslararası (tr), enternasyonal (tr) Turkmen: halkara Udmurt: калыккуспо (kalykkuspo) Ukrainian: міжнаро́дний (mižnaródnyj), інтернаціона́льний (internacionálʹnyj) Urdu: بین الاقوامی (ur) (bainal-aqvāmī), انٹرنیشنال (inṭarnaiśnāl) Uyghur: خەلقئارا (xelq'ara) Uzbek: xalqaro (uz), internatsional (uz) Vietnamese: quốc tế (vi) (國際) Volapük: bevünetik (vo) Welsh: rhyngwladol (cy) Yiddish: אינטערנאַציאָנאַל (internatsyonal)

Noun

international (plural internationals)

1. (sports, chiefly British, Ireland, Australia) Someone who has represented their country in a particular sport.

   The United team includes five England internationals.

   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "The young fellah meant no real harm. After all, he's an International, so if he takes half an hour to describe a game of football he has more right to do it than most folk."

2. (sports, chiefly Britain, Ireland, Australia) A game or contest between two or more nations.
   • 2023 July 26, Paul Clifton, “A (safe and secure) Day at the Races...”, in RAIL, number 988, page 35:

     SWR has more than its fair share of major national events. As well as the [Queen's] funeral and the coronation in the past 12 months, annual events include racing at Ascot, grand slam tennis at Wimbledon, and rugby internationals at Twickenham.

3. (politics) A transnational organization of political parties of similar ideology.

Translations

transnational organization

Arabic: الدولية f Chinese: Mandarin: 萬國公黨／万国公党, 國際政黨／国际政党 Czech: internacionála f Danish: internationale c Finnish: internationaali (fi) French: internationale (fr) f Galician: internacional (gl) f Japanese: 国際政党組織 Korean: 국제정당조직 (gukjejeongdangjojik), 국제정당 (gukjejeongdang), 정치적 인터내셔널 (jeongchijeok inteonaesyeoneol) Lithuanian: internacionalas m Polish: międzynarodówka f Russian: интернациона́л (ru) m (intɛrnacionál) Spanish: internacional (es) f Ukrainian: інтернаціонал m (internacional)

See also

• supranational

Danish

Etymology

From New Latin internationalis, a compound of inter- +‎ nationalis.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈentˢɐnaɕoˈnæˀl]

Adjective

international

1. international, having to do with more nations
2. international, having to do with relations between two or more nations

   Synonym: mellemfolkelig

3. international, foreign, having to do with another nation than your own

   Synonym: udenlandsk

Inflection

Inflection of international
	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Indefinte common singular	international	—	—2
Indefinite neuter singular	internationalt	—	—2
Plural	internationale	—	—2
Definite attributive1	internationale	—	—
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Related terms

• internationalisere
• internationalisme
• internationalist
• internationalitet

References

• “international” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ.nal/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Homophones: internationale, internationales
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧na‧tio‧nal

Adjective

international (feminine internationale, masculine plural internationaux, feminine plural internationales)

1. international

   Les Nations Unies sont une organisation internationale.

   The United Nations is an international organization.

Derived terms

• alphabet phonétique international
• communauté internationale
• droit international
• Internationale
• internationalisation
• internationaliser
• organisation internationale
• rendre justice
• Système international

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: internacional
• → Romanian: internațional

Further reading

• “international”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

international (strong nominative masculine singular internationaler, not comparable)

1. international

   Synonyms: global, zwischenstaatlich

Declension

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist international	sie ist international	es ist international	sie sind international
strong declension (without article)	nominative	internationaler	internationale	internationales	internationale
	genitive	internationalen	internationaler	internationalen	internationaler
	dative	internationalem	internationaler	internationalem	internationalen
	accusative	internationalen	internationale	internationales	internationale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der internationale	die internationale	das internationale	die internationalen
	genitive	des internationalen	der internationalen	des internationalen	der internationalen
	dative	dem internationalen	der internationalen	dem internationalen	den internationalen
	accusative	den internationalen	die internationale	das internationale	die internationalen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein internationaler	eine internationale	ein internationales	(keine) internationalen
	genitive	eines internationalen	einer internationalen	eines internationalen	(keiner) internationalen
	dative	einem internationalen	einer internationalen	einem internationalen	(keinen) internationalen
	accusative	einen internationalen	eine internationale	ein internationales	(keine) internationalen

Positive forms of international (uncomparable)

Further reading

• “international” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “international” in Duden online

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.ter.na.tsjoˈnal/

Adjective

international (comparative plus international, superlative le plus international)

1. international