interne

1. 1.

   an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)

   Synonymsinternhousemanmedical intern

   Broaderdoctor

   United Kingdom

Other forms of interne

plural

internes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about interne

What does interne mean?

interne means "an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)".

How many syllables are in interne?

interne has 2 syllables: in-terne. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for interne?

Close synonyms include intern, houseman, medical intern. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is interne a common word?

interne is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.