intercommunication

UK/ˌɪntəkəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

Mutual communication.

OriginEnglish communication ← Latin inter- ← Proto-Italic *n̥ter →
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Meanings

nounintercommunication (countable and uncountable, plural intercommunications)

plural intercommunications · alternative entercommunication

  1. countableuncountableMutual communication.

    Starting in their different musical worlds, they attempted endless ways of achieving a partnership, at last finding some kind of "intercommunication".

    2003 January 13, Tom Service, The Guardian
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    Even in beasts, that have no voice at all, by the reciprocall kindnesse, which we see in them, we easily inferre there is some other meane of entercommunication: their jestures treat, and their motions discourse.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  4. Latininter
  5. Latininter-
  6. Englishinter-
  7. Englishcommunication
  8. Englishintercommunication

From inter- + communication.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with intercommunication

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APA

intercommunication. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intercommunication

MLA

“intercommunication.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intercommunication. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intercommunication,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intercommunication.

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