interview

From Anglo-Norman entreveue (French entrevue), feminine singular past participle of entrevëoir, from entre- + vëoir (“to see”).

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntəvjuː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɚvjuː/

interview (plural interviews)

1. (obsolete) An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 2, member 4:

     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.

2. Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official nature. [from 17th c.]
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. [from 19th c.]

   The reporter gave the witness an interview.

4. A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant. [from 20th c.]

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

5. An audition.
6. A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation. [from 20th c.]

• exit interview
• job interview

• → Esperanto: intervjuo
• → French: interview
• → German: Interview
• Italian: intervista
• → Japanese: インタビュー
• → Korean: 인터뷰 (inteobyu)
• Lithuanian: interviu
• → Malay: interviu
• Portuguese: entrevista
• Romanian: interviu
• → Russian: интервью (intervʹju)
• Spanish: entrevista

interview (third-person singular simple present interviews, present participle interviewing, simple past and past participle interviewed)

1. To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview.

   He interviewed the witness.

   The witness was interviewed.

2. To be interviewed; to attend an interview.
   • 2000, U.S. News and World Report: Volume 129, Issues 18-25

     When she interviewed with Microsoft in August, she overlooked a small cut in salary and asked about long-term career opportunities — and quality of life.

• interviewer

• interview in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• interview in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Interview on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• interview on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

interview n

1. interview (conversation intended for recording statements for publication)

• See vize

• interview in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• interview in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntərˌvju/

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interview n (plural interviews, diminutive interviewtje n)

1. interview (conversation intended for recording statements for publication)

interview

1. first-person singular present indicative of interviewen
2. imperative of interviewen

• interviewen
• herinterviewen
• interviewer
• interviewster
• geïnterviewde

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju/, /in.tɛʁ.vju/

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interview f (plural interviews)

1. interview (by a journalist)

• interviewer

• entrevue

• “interview” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).