different between mainland vs interior

English

Etymology

From Middle English mayne londe; equivalent to main +? land. Compare Scots mayn-land, magan-land, madin-land (“mainland”), Faroese meginland (“mainland”), Icelandic meginland (“mainland”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?me??nl?nd/

Noun

mainland (plural mainlands)

1. The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:

     ...I got to the mainland, where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from danger and quite out of the reach of the water.

   • 2005, comment (not durably archived):

     You may have not realised when I was using the term mainland Europe, I was excluding the British Isles.

2. The principal island of a group.

Hypernyms

• land

Derived terms

• mainlander

Translations

References

• mainland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• almandin

English

Alternative forms

• interiour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?t??i?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?t???i??/
• Rhymes: -???i?(?)

Adjective

interior (not comparable)

1. Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.

Antonyms

• exterior

Derived terms

• interior decoration
• interior design
• interior designer

Translations

Noun

interior (plural interiors)

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

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

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

Antonyms

• exterior

Translations

Anagrams

• tire iron

Asturian

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior (the inside of an enclosed structure)

Catalan

Adjective

interior (feminine interiora, masculine plural interiors, feminine plural interiores)

1. interior, inner, internal

Noun

interior m (plural interiors)

1. interior, inside

Galician

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Adjective

interior m or f (plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior

Antonyms

• exterior

Latin

Etymology

From the earlier *interus (whence also intr?), from the Proto-Indo-European *h?énteros (“inner, what is inside”). Cognates include the Sanskrit ????? (ántara, “interior”) and the Ancient Greek ??????? (énteron, “intestine, bowel”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in?te.ri.or/, [?n??t???i?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in?te.ri.or/, [in??t????i?r]

Adjective

interior (neuter interius, positive inter); third declension

1. inner, interior
2. nearer

Usage notes

Although this adjective is the comparative form of inter, there is no positive form. The word inter is an adverb and preposition, not an adjective.

Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Descendants

References

• 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.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.t?.?i.?o?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?.?te.?i.?o?/, /??.te.??jo?/
• Hyphenation: in?te?ri?or

Adjective

interior (plural interiores, comparable)

1. inner; interior (located in the inside)

Antonyms

• (inner): exterior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior; inside

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

   Synonym: campo

Usage notes

The sense of countryside is very subjective. People from the Brazilian state capitals tend to consider the rest of the state interior, 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.

Antonyms

• (inside): exterior
• (countryside): cidade

Romanian

Etymology

From French intérieur

Noun

interior n (plural interiori)

1. interior

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Adjective

interior (plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

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

Antonyms

• exterior

Derived terms

Related terms

• interioridad
• interiorizar
• interno

Further reading

“interior” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.