Interior

//ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə// adj, name, noun

adj, name, noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

    "The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid."

  2. 2
    the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849 wordnet
  3. 3
    The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.

    "Near-synonyms: backcountry, upcountry, hinterland"

  4. 4
    the inner or enclosed surface of something wordnet
  5. 5
    The set of all interior points of a set.
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  1. 6
    the region that is inside of something wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner. not-comparable

    "the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball"

  2. 2
    Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland. not-comparable

    "the interior parts of a region or country"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or coming from the middle of a region or country wordnet
  2. 2
    inside and toward a center wordnet
  3. 3
    located inward wordnet
  4. 4
    situated within or suitable for inside a building wordnet
  5. 5
    inside the country wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town and village in South Dakota, United States.
  2. 2
    A region of British Columbia, Canada.

Synonyms

All synonyms
domesticindoorinsideinternalinwardairscape

Example

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"The interior of the house was very attractive."

Etymology

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Related phrases

Central InteriorCentral Interior CordilleraCentral Interior PlainInterior Alaskan wolfInterior CordilleraInterior PlainNorthern InteriorNorthern Interior CordilleraNorthern Interior PlainSouthern InteriorSouthern Interior CordilleraSouthern Interior Plain

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