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

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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

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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

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