Interior

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English

Adjective

Interior (not comparable)

  1. having to do with the inner part of something
  2. having to do with the inland parts of a country far from the coasts

Derived terms

Noun

Interior (plural Interiors)
  1. The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
  2. The inside regions of a country, distanced from from the borders or coasts.
    Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.
  3. (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.

Adjectives for Interior

distinctive; ambitious; distinguished; sumptuous; superb; opaque; domestic; webby; capacious; unmodified; colonial; costly; austere; musty; dusty; wretched; pierced.

Verbs for Interior

acquaint with—; advance into—: creep into — display—; enter—; harmonize—; invade — line—; lose in—; penetrate—; press into — pry into—; push into—; situate in—; withdraw into—; worm into—; —awes; — impresses; —unfolds.

Thesaurus

airscape, amidships, anonymous, average, belly, bosom, center, central, cityscape, civil, closet, cloudscape, core, deep, deepest recesses, depths, diameter, diaphragm, diorama, domestic, equator, equatorial, equidistant, exterior, farmscape, gut, halfway, heart, heart of hearts, heartland, hidden, hinterland, home, incognito, individual, indoor, inland, inlands, inmost, innards, inner, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, innermost, inshore, inside, interior man, intermediary, intermediate, intern, internal, internals, intestine, intimate, intrados, intrinsic, inward, inwards, isolated, kernel, landscape, local, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midlands, midmost, midriff, midships, midst, midway, national, nuclear, nucleus, pastoral, penetralia, personal, private, privy, recesses, retired, riverscape, scape, scene, seapiece, seascape, secluded, secret, secret place, secret places, sequestered, skyscape, snowscape, soul, thick, thick of things, townscape, up-country, upland, uplands, veiled, view, viscera, visceral, vital center, vitals, waist, waistline, waterscape, withdrawn, within, zone

Etymology

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪəriə(r)

Translations

Adjective

having to do with the inner part of something
having to do with the inland parts of a country
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  • Interlingua: interior
  • Spanish: interior m.

Noun

the inside of an enclosed structure
the inside regions of a country
the set of all interior points
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  • Interlingua: interior
  • Spanish: interior m.

Galician

Adjective

Interior m. (feminine interior, plural interiores)

  1. interior

Noun

Interior m. (plural interiores)

  1. interior

Latin

Adjective

Interior (comparative of inter)

  1. inner, interior.
  2. nearer

Notes

Although this adjective is the comparative form of inter, there is no positive form. The word inter is an adverb and preposition, not an adjective.

Inflection

Number Singular Plural
Case \ Gender M.F. N. MM.FF. NN.
nominative interior interius interiōrēs interiōra
genitive interiōris interiōris interiōrum interiōrum
dative interiōrī interiōrī interiōribus interiōribus
accusative interiōrem interius interiōrēs interiōra
ablative interiōre interiōre interiōribus interiōribus
vocative interior interius interiōrēs interiōra

Etymology

From earlier *interus (whence also intrā), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). Cognates include Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “interior”) and Ancient Greek ἔντερον (enteron, “intestine, bowel”).

Spanish

Adjective

  1. interior

Noun

  1. interior

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