interviewer
/ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who interviews.
Example Sentences
- "“I don't consider myself a nebbish,” Woody told interviewers early in his career, “but everyone else does.”"
- ""I am glad to know you preserve that old signal box at the top of the incline. Is it not the oldest in Scotland?" an interviewer asks John Conacher, General Manager of the North British Railway, in 1898."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-der. Old French entre- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videō Old French veoir Old French entreveoir Old French entreveue English interview Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English interviewer From interview + -er.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/
- British English: /ˈɪntəvjuːə/