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in·te·ri·or 
[in-teer-ee-er] Pronunciation Key
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[in-teer-ee-er] Pronunciation Key –adjective
–noun
| 1. | being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center: the interior rooms of a house. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to that which is within; inside: an interior view. |
| 3. | situated well inland from the coast or border: the interior towns of a country. |
| 4. | of or pertaining to the inland. |
| 5. | domestic: interior trade. |
| 6. | private or hidden; inner: interior negotiations of the council. |
| 7. | pertaining to the mind or soul; mental or spiritual: the interior life. |
| 8. | the internal or inner part; inside. |
| 9. | Architecture.
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| 10. | a pictorial representation of the inside of a room. |
| 11. | the inland parts of a region, country, etc.: the Alaskan interior. |
| 12. | the domestic affairs of a country as distinguished from its foreign affairs: the Department of the Interior. |
| 13. | the inner or inward nature or character of anything. |
| 14. | Mathematics. the largest open set contained in a given set, as the points in a circle not including the boundary. |
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in·te·ri·or·ly, adverb
—Antonyms 1, 8. exterior.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| in·te·ri·or
(ĭn-tîr'ē-ər) Pronunciation Key
adj.
n.
[Ultimately Latin, comparative adj. of inter, between; see en in Indo-European roots.] in·te'ri·or'i·ty (-ôr'ĭ-tē, -ŏr'-) n., in·te'ri·or·ly adv. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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interior
1490, from L. interior "inner," comparative adj. of inter "within" (superl. intimus). The noun meaning "part of a country distant from the coast" is from 1796; meaning "inside of a building or room" is from 1829. Interior decoration first attested 1807. Meaning "internal affairs of a country or state" (as in Department of the Interior) is from 1838.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| interior | |
adjective | |
| 1. | situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows" [ant: exterior] |
| 2. | inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home] |
| 3. | located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. [syn: inner] |
| 4. | inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth" |
| 5. | of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts" |
noun | |
| 1. | the region that is inside of something [syn: inside] [ant: exterior] |
| 2. | the inner or enclosed surface of something [syn: inside] [ant: exterior] |
| 3. | the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849 [syn: Department of the Interior] |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
U.S. Gazetteer - Cite This Source - Share This
Interior, SD (town, FIPS 31620) Location: 43.72745 N, 101.98343 W
Population (1990): 67 (40 housing units)
Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 57750
U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Interior
In*te"ri*or\, a. [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf. F. int['e]rieur. See Inter-, and cf. Intimate.]1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country. Interior angle (Geom.), an angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; -- called also internal angle. Interior planets (Astron.), those planets within the orbit of the earth. Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw. Syn: Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Interior
In*te"ri*or\, n. 1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside. 2. The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom. Department of the Interior, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department. Secretary of the Interior, the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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