binational
A person of two nationalities.
Adjective
- Relating to, or involving, two nations.
- Binational peace talks broke down, so a third nation stepped in to mediate.
- 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,...
- Finally, 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,...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- English national English binational From bi- + national.
Derived
Noun
- A person of two nationalities.