Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A student or a recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training.
 - noun A physician who has recently graduated from medical school and is learning medical practice in a hospital under supervision, prior to beginning a residency program.
 - noun One who is interned; an internee.
 - intransitive verb To train or serve as an intern.
 - intransitive verb To confine, especially in wartime.
 
from The Century Dictionary.
- To send into the interior of a country, as merchandise.
 - To confine within fixed or prescribed limits; specifically, to cause to reside in an interior locality without permission to leave it.
 - Internal.
 - noun An inmate, as of a school; especially, an assistant resident physician or surgeon in a hospital, usually a student or recent graduate, acting in the absence of the attending physician or surgeon.
 - Specifically, to confine (a ship of a belligerent) in a neutral port into which it may put: a duty of the neutral power, under the provisions of international law, in time of war.
 
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Internal.
 - transitive verb To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality.
 - transitive verb To hold until the end of a war, as enemy citizens in a country at the time of outbreak of hostilities; -- an action performed by countries.
 - noun (Med.)  A resident physician in a hospital, especially one who has recently received the Doctorate and is practising under supervision of experienced physicians, as a continuation of the training process; a house physician; also called 
houseman in Britain. - noun A person working as an apprentice to gain experience in an occupation; sometimes the position is paid a salary, and other times it is not.
 
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun   A 
student or recentgraduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field - noun   A med student or recently graduated 
medical student working in a hospital as a final part of medical training - noun A person who is interned, forceably or voluntarily.
 - verb transitive  To 
imprison somebody, usually without trial. - verb transitive, computing  To 
internalize . - verb intransitive  To 
work as an intern. Usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, for the purpose of furthering a program of education. - adjective archaic  
Internal . 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb work as an intern
 - noun an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)
 - verb deprive of freedom
 
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Zemzem's other children range in age from 2 to 12, the intern translates as he gently pulls down her gown to cover up her back.
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Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president.
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Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president.
The Seattle Times 2012
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Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president.
The Seattle Times 2012
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Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president.
The Seattle Times 2012
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The Harlem-born Mount Vernon raised businessman had humble beginnings, first working as a label intern ...
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The Harlem-born Mount Vernon raised businessman had humble beginnings, first working as a label intern ...
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The Harlem-born Mount Vernon raised businessman had humble beginnings, first working as a label intern ...
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The Harlem-born Mount Vernon raised businessman had humble beginnings, first working as a label intern ...
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MaryW commented on the word intern
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (New York: Little Brown & Co., 2004), p. 224.May 30, 2016