Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or located on the inside; inner.
  • adjective Of or relating to one's mental or spiritual being.
  • adjective Situated away from a coast or border; inland.
  • noun The internal portion or area.
  • noun One's mental or spiritual life.
  • noun The inland part of a political or geographic entity.
  • noun The internal affairs of a country or nation.
  • noun A representation of the inside of a building or room, as in a photograph.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Being within; inside of anything that limits, incloses, or conceals; internal; further toward a center: opposed to exterior or superficial: as, the interior parts of a house or of the earth.
  • Inland; remote from the limits, frontier, or shore: as, the interior parts of a country; an interior town.
  • Of or pertaining to that which is within; inside: as, an interior view.
  • Pertaining to the immediate contents of consciousness; relating to that which one can perceive within one's self; inward; inner; inmost; mental.
  • In entomology, inner; lying next to the body or the median line.
  • noun The internal part; the inside.
  • noun In art: An inside part of a building, considered as a whole from the point of view of artistic design or general effect, convenience, etc.
  • noun A picture of such an inclosed space, or of any subject considered as within such an inclosure, or under the conditions of lighting, etc., obtaining therein.
  • noun That part of a country or state which is at a considerable distance from its frontiers.
  • noun The internal or domestic affairs of a country as distinguished from its external or foreign affairs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.
  • noun The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.
  • noun 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.
  • noun the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.
  • adjective Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial
  • adjective Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
  • adjective (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.
  • adjective (Astron.) those planets within the orbit of the earth.
  • adjective a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective having to do with the inner part of something
  • adjective having to do with the inland parts of a country far from the coasts
  • noun The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
  • noun The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
  • noun mathematics, topology The set of all interior points of a set.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective inside the country
  • noun the inner or enclosed surface of something
  • adjective located inward
  • noun the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849
  • adjective situated within or suitable for inside a building
  • adjective of or coming from the middle of a region or country
  • noun the region that is inside of something
  • adjective inside and toward a center

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Ultimately Latin, comparative adj. of inter, between; see en in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin interior ("inner, interior").

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Examples

  • DIRK KEMPTHORNE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR: I'm Dirk Kempthorne, secretary of the interior.

    CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2007 2007

  • Ltd., to pay for a total of $18.2 million for the already completed interior and exterior design and molding of the JNZ SHUTTLE Van; the completed engineering design, type approval certification and catalogue license of the gasoline transmission of the JNZ SHUTTLE Van; and the ALIAS interior and exterior design and molding, which is underway.

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  • For many travelers, driving down the Baja Peninsula, taking a passsenger/vehicle ferry across to Mexico's mainland and then exploring the interior is a pleasant way of experiencing a wide variety of topography.

    Ferries in Mexico: the Pacific coast 2009 update 2009

  • For many travelers, driving down the Baja Peninsula, taking a passsenger/vehicle ferry across to Mexico's mainland and then exploring the interior is a pleasant way of experiencing a wide variety of topography.

    Ferries in Mexico: the Pacific coast 2009 update 2009

  • Sometimes the best way to freshen up your interior is also the easiest way.

    Wallpaper by Vincent Olm 2009

  • And although it looks old and worn, the interior is all about contemporary shapes and elegant furnishings, for more warmth (maybe during winter?).

    North Bay Road Residence by Touzet Studio 2009

  • Personally from what I have seen thus far the interior is a far greater departure (in the wrong direction) than the ship itself.

    The Evolution of the USS Enterprise | /Film 2008

  • So, if Volaris to Tijuana from where ever you are in the interior is an option, I think I'd be inclined to take it.

    California Crossings 2008

  • Increased ice and snow on the interior is the other side of the issue that Gore is not telling, I never claimd it constituted both sides of the issue by itself.

    Think Progress » Andrew Sullivan Compares Gore on Global Warming to Cheney’s Reckless Claims About WMD 2006

  • It's not the article I remember reading, but you've put my mind at ease regarding the bottle holder; you are correct, the interior is a white glaze.

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