intercommunicate

To communicate mutually, one with another.

Verb

  1. To communicate mutually, one with another.
    • There is also a growing number of teleradio stations on small inter-island craft. All these stations communicate with or through Vila, but may intercommunicate by permission. - 1951, Great Britain. Colonial Office, An...
  2. To be interconnected.
    • The two vehicles of each unit intercommunicate through a vestibule type corridor connection similar to that obtaining in long-distance passenger stock. - 1954 July, “Lightweight Diesel Trains for British Railways”, in...
    • […] but in analysing the more highly developed houses, where the pavilions are integrated architecturally with other rooms at the ends of the hall, the possibility that they intercommunicated with them cannot be...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English communicate English intercommunicate From inter- + communicate.

Forms

intercommunicates intercommunicating intercommunicated