intern

¹

Sometimes in·terne

[in-turn]

noun

1. a resident member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually a recent medical school graduate serving under supervision.

2. Education.,  student teacher.

3. a person who works as an apprentice or trainee in an occupation or profession to gain practical experience, and sometimes also to satisfy legal or other requirements for being licensed or accepted professionally.

verb (used without object)

interned, interning 

1. to be or perform the duties of an intern.

intern

²

[in-turn]

adjective

Archaic.

1. internal.

intern

³

[in-turn, in-turn]

verb (used with object)

1. to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.

2. to impound or hold within a country until the termination of a war, as a ship of a belligerent that has put into a neutral port and remained beyond a limited period.

noun

1. a person who is or has been interned; internee.

intern

verb

1. (tr) to detain or confine (foreign or enemy citizens, ships, etc), esp during wartime

2. (intr) to serve or train as an intern

noun

1. another word for internee

2. Also: interne. British equivalent: house officer. med a graduate in the first year of practical training after medical school, resident in a hospital and under supervision by senior doctors

3. a student teacher

4. a student or recent graduate receiving practical training in a working environment

adjective

1. an archaic word for internal

Word History and Origins

Origin of intern¹

First recorded in 1825–30 intern ¹ for def. 1, and in 1920–25 intern ¹ for defs. 2, 3; from French interne “assistant doctor,” from Latin internus “inward”; intern ³

Origin of intern²

First recorded in 1570–80; from Latin internus “inward,” equivalent to inter- inter- + -nus adjective suffix

Origin of intern³

First recorded in 1865–70; from French interner “to send inland; confine,” verbal derivative of interne intern ³

Word History and Origins

Origin of intern¹

C19: from Latin internus internal

Example Sentences

The team found that the employees using AI the most at the company were, far and away, the interns.

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Goldberg told MarketWatch on Tuesday, adding that the messaging was akin to leaving “the intern in charge while everyone else was on Thanksgiving break.”

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While he has never held public office, Driscoll worked in Congress as an intern for the Senate's veteran affairs committee, and in 2020 he made an unsuccessful bid for a House seat in North Carolina.

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Not as a player, coach, or scout—not even an intern.

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"Manually annotating over 23,000 calls by hand is no small feat, and I have a team of interns to thank for helping with the analysis!" shares Parnell.

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Related Words

• doctor 
• resident 
• student 
• trainee