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in⋅te⋅ri⋅or

  [in-teer-ee-er]
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–adjective
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.
–noun
8. the internal or inner part; inside.
9. Architecture.
a. the inside part of a building, considered as a whole from the point of view of artistic design or general effect, convenience, etc.
b. a single room or apartment so considered.
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.
Origin:
1480–90; < L, comp. adj. equiv. to inter- inward + -ior comp. suffix; see exterior

Related forms:
in⋅te⋅ri⋅or⋅i⋅ty  [in-teer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or-] , noun
in⋅te⋅ri⋅or⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
8. See inside.

Antonyms:
1, 8. exterior.
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in·te·ri·or   (ĭn-tîr'ē-ər)   
adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or located on the inside; inner.
  2. Of or relating to one's mental or spiritual being: "She thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it" (David Denby).
  3. Situated away from a coast or border; inland.
n.  
  1. The internal portion or area.
  2. One's mental or spiritual life.
  3. The inland part of a political or geographic entity.
  4. The internal affairs of a country or nation.
  5. A representation of the inside of a building or room, as in a photograph.

[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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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.

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.
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Language Translation for : interior
Spanish: interior,
German: Innen-…,
Japanese: 内の
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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
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Main Entry: 1in·te·ri·or
Pronunciation: in-'tir-E-&r
Function: adjective
: lying, occurring, or functioning withinlimiting boundaries

Main Entry: 2interior
Function: noun
: the internal or inner part or cavity of a thing
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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