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
interior (not comparable)
Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
• exterior
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.
• exterior
• tire iron
Interior
A town and village in South Dakota.
• 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
8 February 2025
(noun) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; “the state has lowered its income tax”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
