Standard Lemma guide

intern

adj · noun · verb · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • US: /ɪnˈtɝn/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɜːn/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈɪntɝn/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɜːn/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: IH1 N T ER0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Internal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To imprison somebody, usually without trial.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To imprison somebody, usually without trial.

To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Qualifier: especially a neutral state

Examples

  • The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To internalize.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To work as an intern, usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, and for the purpose of furthering a program of education.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: interne, houseman, medical intern

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico

10

verb

Meaning 10

work as an intern

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The young doctor is interning at the Medical Center this year

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: work

11

verb

Meaning 11

deprive of freedom

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • During WW II, Japanese were interned in camps in the West

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: confine, detain

History

Etymology

From French interner, from interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), compare Etymology 2.

From French interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), from inter (“between”); compare Etymology 1.

Across languages

Translations

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُتَدَرِّب (mutadarrib) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Armenian: պրակտիկանտ (praktikant) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Armenian: փորձնակ (pʻorjnak) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Armenian: ինթերն (intʻern) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Catalan: becari — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Catalan: becària — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Chinese Mandarin: 實習生 /实习生 (shíxíshēng) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Czech: stážista — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Danish: praktikant — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Dutch: stagiair — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Esperanto: staĝanto — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Finnish: työharjoittelija — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Finnish: harjoittelija — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • French: stagiaire — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • German: Praktikant — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • German: Praktikantin — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Hungarian: gyakornok — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Italian: stagista — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Japanese: 実習生 (jisshūsei) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Japanese: インターン (intān) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Kazakh: тағылымгер (tağylymger) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Kazakh: тәжірибеленуші (täjıribelenuşı) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Korean: 인턴 (inteon) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Korean: 실습생 (silseupsaeng) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Macedonian: стажа́нт (stažánt) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Macedonian: стажа́нтка (stažántka) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Macedonian: практика́нт (praktikánt) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Macedonian: практика́нтка (praktikántka) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Macedonian: при́правник (prípravnik) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Macedonian: припра́вничка (priprávnička) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Norwegian: praktikant — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Persian: کارآموز (kâr-âmuz) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Persian: انترن (antern) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Persian: کارورز (kâr-varz) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Polish: stażysta — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Polish: stażystka — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Portuguese: estagiário — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Portuguese: estagiária — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Russian: стажёр (stažór) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Russian: стажёрка (stažórka) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Russian: практика́нт (praktikánt) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Russian: практика́нтка (praktikántka) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Russian: инте́рн (intɛ́rn) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Spanish: pasante — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Spanish: practicante — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Spanish: persona en prácticas — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Spanish: interno — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Spanish: becario — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Spanish: practicando — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Swedish: praktikant — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Thai: ผู้ฝึกงาน (pûu-fʉ̀k-ngaan) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Turkish: stajyer — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Yiddish: פּראַקטיקאַנט (praktikant) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Yiddish: פּראַקטיקאַנטקע (praktikantke) — student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
  • Catalan: intern — medical trainee working in a hospital
  • Catalan: interna — medical trainee working in a hospital
  • Finnish: amanuenssi — medical trainee working in a hospital
  • Finnish: hoitoharjoittelija — medical trainee working in a hospital
  • Finnish: lääkäriharjoittelija — medical trainee working in a hospital
  • French: interne (des hôpitaux) — medical trainee working in a hospital
  • Japanese: インターン (intān) — medical trainee working in a hospital
  • Persian: انترن (antern) — medical trainee working in a hospital
  • Portuguese: interno — medical trainee working in a hospital
  • Turkish: intörn — medical trainee working in a hospital
  • Bulgarian: интерни́рам (interníram) — to imprison (transitive)
  • Dutch: interneren — to imprison (transitive)
  • Finnish: internoida — to imprison (transitive)
  • French: interner — to imprison (transitive)
  • German: internieren — to imprison (transitive)
  • Irish: imtheorannaigh — to imprison (transitive)
  • Italian: internare — to imprison (transitive)
  • Japanese: 抑留する (yokuryū suru) — to imprison (transitive)
  • Japanese: 拘留する (kōryū suru) — to imprison (transitive)
  • Macedonian: интерни́ра (interníra) — to imprison (transitive)
  • Macedonian: за́твора (zátvora) — to imprison (transitive)
  • Polish: internować — to imprison (transitive)
  • Russian: интерни́ровать (intɛrnírovatʹ) — to imprison (transitive)
  • Swedish: internera — to imprison (transitive)
  • Danish: være i praktik — to work as an intern
  • Danish: komme i praktik — to work as an intern
  • Finnish: työharjoitella — to work as an intern
  • Finnish: harjoitella — to work as an intern
  • Japanese: インターンとして働く (intān to shite hataraku) — to work as an intern
  • Portuguese: estagiar — to work as an intern
  • Russian: проходи́ть пра́ктику/стажиро́вку (proxodítʹ práktiku/stažiróvku) — to work as an intern
  • Russian: пройти́ пра́ктику/стажиро́вку (projtí práktiku/stažiróvku) — to work as an intern
  • Spanish: pasante — to work as an intern
  • Swedish: praktisera — to work as an intern