Interior - Definition

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]