Interview

Noun

 * 1)  An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures.
 * 2) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.2.4:
 * 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.
 * 1) Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official nature.
 * 2) 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.
 * The reporter gave the witness an interview.
 * 1) A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant.
 * It was a dreadful interview; I have no hope of getting the job.
 * 1) A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation.

Verb

 * 1) To obtain an interview with someone; and to have an interview.
 * He interviewed the witness.
 * The witness was interviewed.

Adjectives for Interview
satisfactory; valuable; confiding; affecting; complicated;  unauthorized;   interesting; clandestine; frequent; stormy; remarkable; painful; expressive; tussling; unchaperoned; vesper; transient; short-sighted; frank; preliminary; childish; protracted; brief; unexpected; psychoanalytic; parting; unsatisfactory; disastrous.

Verbs for Interview
allow—; chronicle—; conclude—; confine— to; demand—; draw into—; elicit in—; endure—; evade—; grant—; obtain—; prom¬ise—; publish—; report—; request—; seek—; shirk—; terminate—; transpire at—; —degrades; —reveals; —tires; —wearies.

Thesaurus
appointment, appraisal, appraise, arrangement, assessment, attention, audience, audition, bargaining, bargaining session, blind date, bugging, catechize, check out, conclave, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congress, consultation, convention, conversation, council, council fire, council of war, date, discussion, double date, ear, eavesdropping, electronic surveillance, engagement, engagement book, evaluate, evaluation, examine, exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, favorable attention, hearing, high-level talk, huddle, interchange of views, interrogate, listening, listening in, meeting, negotiations, news conference, palaver, parley, pourparler, powwow, press conference, pump, query, question, quiz, seance, session, sitting, sound out, summit, summit conference, summitry, talk, talk to, test, tryout, vet, vetting, wiretapping, worm out of

Etymology
From entreveue (French: entrevue), from entreveer (entre- "inter-" + veeir "to see").

Noun

 * Arabic: مقابلة
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 走訪, 走访, 採訪, 采访
 * Croatian:
 * Esperanto: intervjuo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean: 인터뷰
 * Manx: co-akin
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: interviu, interviuri
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: entrevista
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: cuộc phỏng vấn
 * Volapük: bespik


 * Arabic: مقابلة
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 面試, 面试
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: intervjuo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:


 * Irish:
 * Japanese: 面接
 * Korean: 면접 (面接)
 * Malay: wawancara, temu bual,
 * Manx: co-akin
 * Polish: rozmowa kwalifikacyjna
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, interviu de prezentare
 * Russian: ,
 * Vietnamese: gặp gỡ, gặp mặt


 * : interviu

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Esperanto: intervjui
 * Finnish:
 * French: avoir une entrevue; (esp. by the police)
 * German:
 * Greek: συνεντευξιάζω, παίρνω συνέντευξη
 * Irish: cuir agallamh ar


 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish: przeprowadzać wywiad
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: интервьюировать, опрашивать
 * Volapük: bespikön

Related terms

 * interviewer

Noun

 * 1) interview (by a journalist)

Derived terms

 * interviewer