intermediate

CEFRB1

/ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/

adjective · noun

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01
adjective
Between basic and advanced in level, skill, or position.
02
noun
A person or thing between two stages or levels.

Examples

Intermediate and advanced language courses are given in the language being learned.
Please bring your intermediate examination certificate with you to the first day of class.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.diˌeɪt/

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adjective

Extra meanings

An intermediary.
Anything in an intermediate position.
Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

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In context

The school offers an intermediate course for students with basic knowledge.
Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
Light rain was coming so he chose intermediate tyres.

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After completing the beginner level, students move on to the blank class.

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Then, being on his knees between my thighs, he drew up his ſhirt, and bared all his hairy thighs, and ſtiff ſtaring truncheon, red-topt, and rooted into a thicket of curls, which cover’d his belly to his navel, and gave it the air of a fleſh-bruſh: and ſoon I felt it joining cloſe to mine, when he had drove the nail up to the head, and left no partition but the intermediate hair on both ſides.
1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, pages 165–166
Such was the station provided for the infrequent services of 1852, when suburban traffic was unheard of, and Hornsey, Colney Hatch & Southgate, Barnet, and Potters Bar were the only intermediate stations on the 17¾ miles between London and Hatfield.
1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 650-651
The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s.
1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
In Oklahoma, an intermediate license holder may not carry more than one non-family member in the vehicle unless accompanied in the front seat by a licensed driver over 21 years of age.
2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022

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Origin

adjective

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, perfect passive participle of intermediō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), further from intermedius (“intermediate”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

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After completing the beginner level, students move on to the blank— class.

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adjective

After completing the beginner level, students move on to the blank class.