- I ate lunch with these really cool Internationals today.
Internationals
noun; zero derivation
Foreign students, often used to describe exhange students. Used extensively at Rice University.
Etymology : Zero derivation from the adjective international, coined by Jeremy Bentham, Inter-, meaning "among, between" + national, meaning "from a nation". Used as a noun on college campuses to refer to foreign exchange students.
Source : Rice Unversity, when reffering to exchange students in colloquial speech.
Last modified: 1 December 2011