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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. the region that is inside of something;
[syn: inside, interior]

2. the inner or enclosed surface of something;
[syn: inside, interior]

3. the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849;
[syn: Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoI]


ADJECTIVE (5)

1. situated within or suitable for inside a building;
- Example: "an interior scene"
- Example: "interior decoration"
- Example: "an interior bathroom without windows"

2. inside the country;
- Example: "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"
- Example: "the nation's internal politics"
[syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national]

3. located inward;
- Example: "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein
- Example: "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby
- Example: "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
[syn: inner, interior, internal]

4. inside and toward a center;
- Example: "interior regions of the earth"

5. of or coming from the middle of a region or country;
- Example: "upcountry districts"
[syn: interior, midland, upcountry]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Interior \In*te"ri*or\, n.
   1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a
      thing; the inside.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.
      [1913 Webster]

   Department of the Interior, that department of the
      government of the United States which has charge of
      pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians,
      education, etc.; that department of the government of a
      country which is specially charged with the internal
      affairs of that country; the home department.

   Secretary of the Interior, the cabinet officer who, in the
      United States, is at the head of the Department of the
      Interior.
      [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Interior \In*te"ri*or\, a. [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf.
   F. int['e]rieur. See Inter-, and cf. Intimate.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as,
      the interior parts of a region or country.
      [1913 Webster]

   Interior angle (Geom.), an angle formed between two sides,
      within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between
      two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting
      them; -- called also internal angle.

   Interior planets (Astron.), those planets within the orbit
      of the earth.

   Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a
      nut; a female screw.

   Syn: Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.
        [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

interior
    adj 1: situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an
           interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior
           bathroom without windows" [ant: exterior]
    2: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader
       responsibilities than the United States Department of the
       Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a),
       interior(a), internal, national]
    3: located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody
       record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she
       thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is
       that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal
       sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. [syn: inner,
       interior, internal]
    4: inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth"
    5: of or coming from the middle of a region or country;
       "upcountry districts" [syn: interior, midland,
       upcountry]
    n 1: the region that is inside of something [syn: inside,
         interior] [ant: exterior, outside]
    2: the inner or enclosed surface of something [syn: inside,
       interior] [ant: exterior, outside]
    3: the United States federal department charged with
       conservation and the development of natural resources;
       created in 1849 [syn: Department of the Interior, Interior
       Department, Interior, DoI]