interior


interior (http://definr.com/interior)

     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,
         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: midland, upcountry]
     n 1: the region that is inside of something [syn: inside] [ant:
           outside]
     2: the inner or enclosed surface of something [syn: inside]
        [ant: outside]
     3: the federal department charged with conservation and the
        development of natural resources; created in 1849 [syn: {Department
        of the Interior}, Interior Department, Interior]