Overview of noun interior

The noun interior has 3 senses

• inside, interior -- (the region that is inside of something)


• inside, interior -- (the inner or enclosed surface of something)


• Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoI -- (the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849)

Overview of adj interior

The adj interior has 5 senses

• interior -- (situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows")


• home, interior, internal, national -- (inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics")


• inner, interior, internal -- (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.)


• interior -- (inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth")


• interior, midland, upcountry -- (of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts")