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English Dictionary: Interior by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
interior
adj
  1. situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows"
    Antonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): 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.
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): interior, midland, upcountry
n
  1. the region that is inside of something [syn: inside, interior]
    Antonym(s): exterior, outside
  2. the inner or enclosed surface of something
    Synonym(s): inside, interior
    Antonym(s): exterior, outside
  3. the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849
    Synonym(s): Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoI
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Interior \In*te"ri*or\, 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Interior \In*te"ri*or\, a. [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf.
      F. int[82]rieur. See {Inter-}, and cf. {Intimate}.]
      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.
  
      Syn: Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Interior, SD (town, FIPS 31620)
      Location: 43.72745 N, 101.98343 W
      Population (1990): 67 (40 housing units)
      Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 57750
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