intercity

See also: Intercity, InterCity, and inter-city

English

Alternative forms

• inter-city

Etymology

From inter- +‎ city.

Adjective

intercity (not comparable)

1. Between cities; connecting cities with other cities.

   Synonym: interurban

   Antonyms: intracity, intraurban

   Coordinate terms: interprovincial, interregional, interstate

   I plan to catch an intercity train, or bus.

   • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

     A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

Translations

between cities

• Belarusian: міжгаро́дні (mižharódni), міжме́скі (mižmjéski)
• Bulgarian: междугра́дски (meždugrádski)
• Catalan: interurbà
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 城際／城际 (zh) (chéngjì)

• Czech: meziměstský
• Finnish: kaupunkien välinen
• French: interurbain (fr)
• German: Intercity- (de)
• Greek: υπεραστικός (el) (yperastikós)
• Indonesian: antarkota
• Italian: interurbano (it)
• Japanese: 都市間 (としかん, toshi kan)
• Korean: 도시 간 (dosi gan)
• Latvian: starppilsētu
• Malay: antarabandar
• Pannonian Rusyn: медзиварошски (medzivarošski), медзигородски (medzihorodski)
• Polish: międzymiastowy (pl)
• Russian: междугоро́дный (ru) (meždugoródnyj), междугоро́дний (ru) (meždugoródnij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ме̏ђуградскӣ

  Roman: mȅđugradskī (sh)

• Slovak: medzimestský
• Slovene: medmesten
• Spanish: interurbano
• Turkish: şehirler arası (tr)
• Ukrainian: міжміськи́й (mižmisʹkýj)

See also

• inner city (homophonous or nearly so in some accents)

 

Noun

intercity (plural intercities)

1. Something that runs between cities, such as a railroad.

References

• “intercity”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English intercity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.tərˈsɪ.ti/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ci‧ty

Noun

intercity m (plural intercity's, diminutive intercity'tje n)

1. intercity train

Synonyms

• intercitytrein

Polish

intercity

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English intercity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.tɛrˈsi.ti/
• Rhymes: -iti
• Syllabification: in‧ter‧ci‧ty

Noun

intercity n (indeclinable)

1. (rail transport) InterCity train (long-distance passenger train in Europe)

Further reading

• intercity in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• intercity in Polish dictionaries at PWN