interior

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

Adjective

  1. Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
    • the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball
  2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
    • the interior parts of a region or country

Origin

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Forms

interiour

Antonyms

exterior

Derived

interior angle interior crest interior decoration interior design interior designer interiority interiorization interiorize interiorly interior Mexican interior monologue interiorness interiorscape

Noun

  1. The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
    • The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.
  2. The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
    • Near-synonyms: backcountry, upcountry, hinterland
    • Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.

    Synonyms: backcountry upcountry hinterland

    Hypernyms: land country area region place location

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

Forms

interiors

Antonyms

exterior