Definitions for: Interior


[n] the federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849
[n] the inner or enclosed surface of something
[n] the region that is inside of something
[adj] of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts"
[adj] inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth"
[adj] 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.
[adj] situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows"



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

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

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.


In*te"ri*or, n.
1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a
thing; the inside.

2. The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.

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.

Synonyms: Department of the Interior, indoor, inland, inner, inside, inside(a), Interior Department, internal, inward, midland, upcountry

Antonyms: exterior, exterior, outside

See Also: belly, executive department, indoor(a), inside, midland, midst, part, penetralia, region, surface, thick

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