interior — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball

2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   the interior parts of a region or country

Noun

1. The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

   Examples

   The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.

2. The inside regions of a country, continent, etc., distanced from the borders or coasts.

   Synonyms

   backcountryupcountryhinterland

   Broader terms

   landcountryarearegionplacelocation

   Examples

   Near-synonyms: backcountry, upcountry, hinterland

   Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.

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   Nearly 44 percent of all cargo involves the Soviet Union; 10 percent is transit goods for the landlocked European interior—Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria.

3. The set of all interior points of a set.

Adjective

1. situated within or suitable for inside a building

   Antonyms

   exterior

   Examples

   an interior scene

   interior decoration

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   an interior bathroom without windows

2. inside the country

   Synonyms

   homeinternalnational

   Examples

   the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior

   the nation's internal politics

3. located inward

   Synonyms

   innerinternal

4. inside and toward a center

   Examples

   interior regions of the earth

5. of or coming from the middle of a region or country

   Synonyms

   midlandupcountry

   Examples

   upcountry districts

Noun

1. the region that is inside of something

   Synonyms

   inside

   Broader terms

   regionpart

2. the inner or enclosed surface of something

   Synonyms

   inside

   Broader terms

   surface