English

Proper noun

Interior

1. A town/village in South Dakota.

English

Alternative forms

• interiour (obsolete)

Adjective

interior ‎(not comparable)

1. Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

   the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball

2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.

   the interior parts of a region or country

Antonyms

• exterior

Derived terms

• interior decoration
• interior design
• interior designer

Translations

Noun

interior ‎(plural interiors)

1. The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
2. The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.

   Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.

3. (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.

Antonyms

• exterior

Translations

Asturian

Noun

interior m ‎(plural interiores)

1. interior (the inside of an enclosed structure)

Catalan

Adjective

interior m ‎(feminine interiora, masculine plural interiors, feminine plural interiores)

1. interior, inner, internal

Noun

interior m ‎(plural interiors)

1. interior, inside

Galician

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Adjective

interior m, f (plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

Noun

interior m ‎(plural interiores)

1. interior

Antonyms

• exterior

Latin

Etymology

From the earlier *interus (whence also intrā), from the Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros ‎(“inner, what is inside”). Cognates include the Sanskrit अन्तर ‎(ántara, “interior”) and the Ancient Greek ἔντερον ‎(énteron, “intestine, bowel”).

Adjective

interior ‎(comparative of inter)

1. inner, interior
2. nearer

Usage notes

Although this adjective is the comparative form of inter, there is no positive form. The word inter is an adverb and preposition, not an adjective.

Inflection

Third declension, comparative variant

References

• interior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• interior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “interior”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the interior of Asia: interior Asia; interiora Asiae
    
  • profound scientific education: litterae interiores et reconditae, artes reconditae
    

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨ.ɾi.ˈoɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ˌte.ɾi.ˈoʁ/, /ˌĩ.te.ˈɾjoʁ/
• Hyphenation: in‧te‧ri‧or

Adjective

interior ‎(plural interiores, comparable)

1. inner; interior (located in the inside)

   Não comemos os olhos nem os órgãos interiores.‎

   We don’t eat the eyes nor the inner organs.

Antonyms

• (inner): exterior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior; inside

   Tirei uma bola do interior da caixa.‎

   I took out a ball from interior the box.

2. country; countryside; interior (regions outside major cities)

   Esses fazendeiros sempre moraram no interior.‎

   These farmers have always lived in the country.

Usage notes

The sense of countryside is very subjective. People from the Brazilian state capitals tend to consider the rest of the state interior, people from smaller cities tend to consider only smaller towns interior, those from small villages tend to consider only places without any collective settlement interior, and so on.

Synonyms

• (countryside): campo

Antonyms

• (inside): exterior
• (countryside): cidade

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Adjective

interior m, f ‎(plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

Noun

interior m ‎(plural interiores)

1. interior

Antonyms

• exterior

Related terms

• interioridad
• interiorizar
• interno