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indoors

adverbnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɪnˈdɔːz//
  • United States//ɪnˈdɔɹz//

Inside, into, or within a building.

adverb

  1. 1

    Inside, into, or within a building.

    We stayed indoors to avoid the brutal heat.

    We went indoors when it started to rain.

Etymology

From in + doors, originally two words, representing earlier within doors.

noun

  1. 1

    The interior of a building; the space inside buildings generally.

    I prefer the indoors to the outdoors.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).