Meanings
- not comparableRelating to, or involving, two nations.
Binational peace talks broke down, so a third nation stepped in to mediate.
2 more examples
Experience elsewhere since World War II is hardly encouraging to binational or multi-national concepts.
1968, Don Peretz, “A Binational Approach to the Palestine Conflict”, in Law and Contemporary Problems, page 34, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2013Finally, a binational state would foster alliances between Palestinians currently under occupation and Palestinian Israelis to combat discriminatory Israeli land and housing policies.
2001 December 1, Lama Abu-Odeh, “The Case for Binationalism”, in Boston Review
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
- Proto-Italic*dwi-
- Latinbi-
- Englishbi-
- Englishnational
- Englishbinational
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with binational
Cite this entry
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