externs

Meaning of externs

plural noun
  1. a person working in but not living in an institution, such as a non-resident doctor or other worker in a hospital.
  2. (in a strictly enclosed order of nuns) a sister who does not live exclusively within the enclosure and goes on outside errands.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. banish (someone considered politically undesirable) from a region or district.
    he was externed for inciting communal tension in the city

mid 16th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘external’): from French externe or Latin externus, from exter ‘outer’. The word was used by Shakespeare to mean ‘outward appearance’; current noun senses date from the early 17th century.

Information about externs

  • The singular form of externs is: extern.
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Hyphenation of externs

ex-terns

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • externs is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of externs

sextern

Words that rhyme with externs

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