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internat

boarding school

noun an-tehr-NAH Rare
People & Society Education

Also means

internship (medical/professional)

Usage Note

Internat primarily refers to the residential side of a school — the dormitory and boarding system — or to a boarding school as a whole ('élève en internat'). In medicine, l'internat is the highly competitive national examination that determines hospital internship placements. The student is an interne.

Examples

"Il a passé deux ans en internat."

Natural Translation

He spent two years at boarding school.

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