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Interior

//ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə// adj, name, noun

Definitions

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.
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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Etymology 2

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

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