Meaning

(obsolete) An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures.
2. Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official or adversarial nature.
3. A conversation in person (or, by extension, over the telephone, Internet etc.) between a journalist and someone whose opinion or statements he or she wishes to record for publication, broadcast etc.
4. A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant.
5. An audition.
6. A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation.
7. (transitive) To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview.
8. (intransitive) To be interviewed; to attend an interview.

Example Sentences

To be present at an interview, as that famous of Henry the Eighth and Francis the First, so much renowned all over Europe[…], no age ever saw the like.

(Aaron Burr narrating): It was at about this time that I learned exactly what it was that Hamilton had said of me, and knew that this world was far too narrow a place to contain the two of us. Hamilton's friend made one further attempt to get him off the hook but only further impaled the slanderer by remarking that should Colonel Burr wish to enquire of any other conversation of Hamilton concerning Burr, a prompt and frank avowal or denial would be given. This was too much. I told Van Ness to set a time and place for an interview [referring to a duel with pistols].

The reporter gave the witness an interview.

He has a job interview on Saturday.

It was a dreadful interview; I have no hope of getting the job.

He interviewed the witness.

A very famous journalist interviewed him.

The witness was interviewed.

Word Forms

• interviews
• interviewing
• interviewed

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Use interview when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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