extern
Americannoun
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a person connected with an institution but not residing in it, as a doctor or medical student at a hospital.
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a nun of a strictly enclosed order, as the Carmelites, who resides inside the convent but outside its enclosure and who chiefly goes on outside errands.
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of extern
1525–35; < Latin externus, derivative of exter, exterus. See exterior
Example Sentences
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Turner passed the bar in 1987, clerked as an extern for a U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
So, we drew some sketches of a customized wheelchair and I sent them to a friend who is a Lego enthusiast,’ said Garrett Fraess, veterinary extern at the Zoo.
From Fox News ● Sep. 26, 2018
“He was never an attorney here; he was an extern in our civil legal aid office.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2018
In the weeks after Bond’s allegations were published, this former extern raised a similar question, via email with the Committee on Codes of Conduct, about the scope of the newly amended canons of confidentiality.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2018
Patrick blessed them, and said that the children they would bear to extern tribes would be illustrious.
From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
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