Definitions for externs

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externs ex·tern

Spelling: [ek-sturn; for 3 also ik-sturn]

IPA: /ˈɛk stɜrn; for 3 also ɪkˈstɜrn/

Externs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in externs (eenrstx).

Definitions for externs

noun

1. a person connected with an institution but not residing in it, as a doctor or medical student at a hospital.
2. a nun of a strictly enclosed order, as the Carmelites, who resides inside the convent but outside its enclosure and who chiefly goes on outside errands.

adjective

1. Archaic. external; outer.

Origin of externs

1525-35; Latin externus, derivative of exter, exterus. See exterior

Examples for externs

A further proof perhaps of Puck's rural and extern character is the following rather trifling circumstance.

Patrick blessed them, and said that the children they would bear to extern tribes would be illustrious.

Alis badio-fuscis; strigis duabus obliquis, extern abbreviat, albis.

That a professed nun should be expected to feel personal and unspiritual interest in an extern!

Carin extern vald carinat cum sulco laterali ad utrumque latus.