Crossword clues for houseman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
houseman \houseman\ n. an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience in a hospital or other medical institution. [British]
Syn: intern, interne, internist, medical intern.
intern \in*tern"\, n. [F.] (F. pron. [a^]N`t[^a]rn")
(Med.) A resident physician in a hospital, especially one who has recently received the Doctorate and is practising under supervision of experienced physicians, as a continuation of the training process; a house physician; also called houseman in Britain. [Also spelled interne.]
A person working as an apprentice to gain experience in an occupation; sometimes the position is paid a salary, and other times it is not; as, a white house intern; an intern in a law firm.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now chiefly US English) A male follower or retainer; a male domestic worker or servant. (from 17th c.) 2 (context chiefly UK English) A medical graduate gaining practical experience in a hospital; a house officer. (from 1920s)
WordNet
n. an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term) [syn: intern, interne, medical intern]
Wikipedia
Houseman may refer to:
- Houseman (surname)
- House officer, a junior doctor in a British hospital
- Useful man, a grade of domestic worker below footman
Houseman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Edward Houseman (1869–1942), English cricketer
- Ian Houseman (born 1969), English cricketer
- John Houseman (1902–1988), Romanian-born American actor and film producer
- John Houseman (baseball) (1870–1922), Dutch-born American baseball infielder
- Julius Houseman (1832–1891), American entrepreneur and politician
- Peter Houseman (1945–1977), English footballer
- René Houseman (born 1953), Argentine footballer
- Rob Houseman (born 1966), British Touring Car Championship Team Owner and Principal
Usage examples of "houseman".
She went away to telephone the houseman, told Staff to get the cutters and shears ready and everything needed to replaster the limb, and glanced at the clock.
Beck, the second orthopaedic surgeon, he was on the best of terms with him, and the housemen and nursing staff considered him to be the very acme of perfection.
The long hallway he entered thronged with people in various uniforms--housekeepers and bellmen, waitresses and housemen, bartenders and banquet waiters.
He was guarding First Avenue with sixteen or seventeen of his housemen, a number of them in disguise.
Their housemen, waiting-women, and under-servants had increased tenfold, and there were more than a dozen horses in the stable.
Kagashirayama manor, it is my housemen who caused the monks to come here.
In the midst of the milling servants and housemen he stood planted, arms flung out wide, glaring at the men who surrounded him.
Those people who just arrived are housemen and servants from Rokuhara.
It was a relief to get back to the Accident Room, and because there was a sudden rush on, find herself helping one of the housemen with some uncomplicated arm plasters.
He was standing outside the Surgical Ward entrance as she was passing, talking to two housemen, but he paused when he saw her, and with a word to them deliberately stopped her.
She bent to her task, vaguely knowing that Zuster Bunsma was busy close by and that there were several housemen there now.
The three men arranged themselves without haste around the unconscious patient, covered on the flanks, as it were, by two housemen, looking apprehensive.
He had Gordon Blair with him, the usual two housemen, and towering over them all, Adam.
Those had been regular housemen, sworn to Jadek but not necessarily loyal to him.
Back in her flat, lying in bed with the cats curled up at her feet, she decided it was because he was so much older than the young men who had been at the party, mostly newly qualified housemen or final-year students.