'Interior' definitions:

Definition of 'interior'

From: WordNet
adjective
Situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows" [ant: exterior]
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
adjective
Inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth"
adjective
Of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts" [syn: interior, midland, upcountry]
noun
The region that is inside of something [syn: inside, interior] [ant: exterior, outside]
noun
The inner or enclosed surface of something [syn: inside, interior] [ant: exterior, outside]
noun
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]

Definition of 'Interior'

From: GCIDE
  • Interior \In*te"ri*or\, n.
  • 1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Interior'

From: GCIDE
  • Interior \In*te"ri*or\, a. [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf. F. int['e]rieur. See Inter-, and cf. Intimate.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'interior'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Interior, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Interior, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000) :
77
Housing Units (2000) :
53
Land area (2000) :
1.344865 sq. miles (3.483183 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1.344865 sq. miles (3.483183 sq. km)
FIPS code :
31620
Located within :
South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location :
43.725197 N, 101.983114 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
57750
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

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