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Interior   /ɪntˈɪriər/   Listen
Interior

noun
1.
The region that is inside of something.  Synonym: inside.
2.
The inner or enclosed surface of something.  Synonym: inside.
3.
The United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849.  Synonyms: Department of the Interior, DoI, Interior Department.
adjective
1.
Situated within or suitable for inside a building.  "Interior decoration" , "An interior bathroom without windows"
2.
Inside the country.  Synonyms: home, internal, national.  "The nation's internal politics"
3.
Located inward.  Synonyms: inner, internal.  "She thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it" , "An internal sense of rightousness"
4.
Inside and toward a center.
5.
Of or coming from the middle of a region or country.  Synonyms: midland, upcountry.



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"Interior" Quotes from Famous Books



... a small matter! an object of infinitesimal importance when the broad light of day illumines the interior of houses or the bosquets of a park, but it becomes an object of paramount importance, when the night is pitch dark, and when it is necessary to effect an exchange of clothing within the ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy

... 540, and consecrated in 547. It is octagonal in plan, with an inner structure of eight large piers, arranged in a circle, connected by arches which support a pendentive dome. Following the custom then in vogue, its interior is incrusted throughout with elaborate mosaics in a wealth of color. The most elaborate design and richest color is used in the apse, which was the centre of display in all ...
— The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 03, March 1895 - The Cloister at Monreale, Near Palermo, Sicily • Various

... Islands.—We know of no substance that in our opinion, could be used advantageously to paint the interior of sheet-iron evaporating pans for concentrating ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... we ever know how many victims dropped out of the ruthless caravan, exhausted by thirst and forced marches, on the routes sometimes of three hundred leagues from the interior to the sea. They were usually divided into files containing each thirty or forty slaves, who were fastened together by poles of heavy wood, nine feet long, which terminated in a padlocked fork around the neck. When the caravan made a halt, one end of the pole was unfastened and dropped upon ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863 • Various

... next colony, instead of fixing themselves in the inland parts behind the former, went on southward, till they pleased themselves with another maritime situation. For this reason our colonies have more length than depth; their extent, from east to west, or from the sea to the interior country, bears no proportion to their reach along the ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6 - Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons • Samuel Johnson


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