Interior

a.	1.
	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.
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.

Noun	1.	interior - the region that is inside of something Synonyms: inside
	2.	interior - the inner or enclosed surface of something Synonyms: inside
	3.	Interior - the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849 Synonyms: Department of the Interior, DoI, Interior Department
Adj.	1.	interior - situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows" Antonyms: exterior - situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building; "an exterior scene"; "exterior grade plywood"; "exterior paints"
	2.	interior - inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" Synonyms: home, internal, national
	3.	interior - 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. Synonyms: inner, internal
	4.	interior - inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth"
	5.	interior - of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts" Synonyms: midland, upcountry

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