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Meaning of 'interior' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Interior [ a.]
- 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.
- Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country.
2 . Interior [ n.]
- That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.
- The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.

Meaning of 'interior' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . interior [ a]
Meaning (1):
- situated within or suitable for inside a building
Example in sentence:
  • an interior bathroom without windows;
  • an interior scene;
  • interior decoration
2 . interior [ s]
Meaning (2):
- located inward
Example in sentence:
  • an internal sense of rightousness;
  • Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle;
  • she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it
Meaning (3):
- inside and toward a center
Example in sentence:
  • interior regions of the earth
Meaning (4):
- inside the country
Example in sentence:
  • the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior;
  • the nation's internal politics
Meaning (5):
- of or coming from the middle of a region or country
Example in sentence:
  • upcountry districts

Nearby Words:

intact intactable intactible intagli intagliated intaglio intaglius intail intake intaminated

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