binational

A person of two nationalities.

Adjective

  1. 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

binationalism binationalist binationally

Noun

  1. A person of two nationalities.

Forms

binationals