interior

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧i‧or

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

• interiour (obsolete)

• exterior

interior (plural interiors)

1. The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

   The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.

2. The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.

   Hypernyms: land; country; area; region; place; location

   Near-synonyms: backcountry, upcountry, hinterland

   Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.

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

• exterior

• interior (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• tire iron

From Latin interior.

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior (the inside of an enclosed structure)

   Antonym: exterior

Borrowed from Latin interiōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [in.tə.ɾiˈor]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [in.tə.ɾiˈo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [in.te.ɾiˈoɾ]

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interior m or f (masculine and feminine plural interiors)

1. interior, inner, internal

   Antonym: exterior

interior m (plural interiors)

1. interior, inside

   Antonym: exterior

interior m or f by sense (plural interiors)

1. (baseball) infielder

   Coordinate term: exterior

2. (field hockey or ice hockey) inside

• “interior”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “interior”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “interior” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “interior” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “interior” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2026.
• “interior” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2026.

From Latin interior.

interior m or f (plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior

• exterior

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈtɛ.ri.ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈtɛː.ri.or]

interior (comparative, neuter interius, no positive form, superlative intimus or intumus, adverb interius); third declension

1. comparative degree of inter
   1. inner, interior
   2. nearer

• Although interior is the comparative form of inter morphologically, there is no attested positive form, as inter is only used as a preposition and adverb, not as an adjective.

Third-declension comparative adjective.

• “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
• “interior”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the interior of Asia: interior Asia; interiora Asiae
    
  • profound scientific education: litterae interiores et reconditae, artes reconditae
    

Learned borrowing from Latin interiōrem.

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• Hyphenation: in‧te‧ri‧or

interior m or f (plural interiores)

1. inner; interior (located in the inside)

   Antonym: exterior

   Não comemos os olhos nem os órgãos interiores.

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

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior; inside

   Antonym: exterior

   Tirei uma bola do interior da caixa.

   I took out a ball from the interior of the box.

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

   Synonym: campo

   Antonym: cidade

   Esses fazendeiros moraram sempre no interior.

   Those farmers have always lived in the country.

Generally speaking, any part of a Brazilian state that is not in or near its capital or coast is the state's interior. Alternatively, 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.

• “interior”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French intérieur.

interior n (plural interiori)

1. interior

From Latin interior.

• IPA^(key): /inteˈɾjoɾ/ [ĩn̪.t̪eˈɾjoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: in‧te‧rior

interior m or f (masculine and feminine plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior
2. (Venezuela, also used in the plural) male underwear, underpants

• exterior

• “interior”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025