INTERIOR
interior, midland, upcountry
(adjective) of or coming from the middle of a region or country; “upcountry districts”
interior
(adjective) inside and toward a center; “interior regions of the earth”
inner, interior, internal
(adjective) 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.
interior
(adjective) situated within or suitable for inside a building; “an interior scene”; “interior decoration”; “an interior bathroom without windows”
interior, home(a), internal, national
(adjective) inside the country; “the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior”; “the nation’s internal politics”
inside, interior
(noun) the inner or enclosed surface of something
inside, interior
(noun) the region that is inside of something
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
interior (not comparable)
Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
Antonyms
• exterior
Noun
interior (plural interiors)
The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
(mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.
Antonyms
• exterior
Anagrams
• tire iron
Proper noun
Interior
A town and village in South Dakota.
Anagrams
• tire iron
Source: Wiktionary
In*te"ri*or, a. Etym: [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf. F.
intérieur. 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.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition