indoors

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɔːz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɔɹz/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z

Adverb

indoors (not comparable)

1. Inside, into, or within a building.

   We stayed indoors to avoid the brutal heat.

   We went indoors when it started to rain.

Antonyms

• outdoors

Derived terms

• 'er indoors
• her indoors
• indoorsman
• indoors voice
• indoorsy

Translations

in or into a building

• Afrikaans: binnenshuis
• Albanian: brënda (sq)
• Bulgarian: вътре (bg) (vǎtre), на закрито (na zakrito)
• Catalan: a l'interior
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 室內 / 室内 (zh) (shìnèi)

• Dutch: indoor (nl)
• Danish: indendørs
• Finnish: sisään (fi)
• French: à l'intérieur (fr), dedans (fr)
• German: drinnen (de) (in); hinein (de), herein (de), rein (de) (into)
• Icelandic: inni (is) (in), inn (is) (into)
• Ingrian: sissee (motion), uulitsalt (motion), sises (location)
• Irish: isteach, istigh, laistigh
• Italian: dentro (it), al chiuso, all'interno (it)
• Mongolian: дотор (mn) (dotor)
• Norwegian: innendørs (no), innomhus (no)

  Bokmål: innadørs (no)

  Nynorsk: innandørs (nn)

• Old English: inne (in); inn (into)
• Portuguese: num lugar fechado
• Russian: в помеще́нии (v pomeščénii), внутри́ (до́ма) (vnutrí (dóma))
• Samoan: i (sm) totonu
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: nutśi

• Spanish: dentro (es)
• Swedish: inomhus (sv)
• Tetum: please add this translation if you can
• Tongan: 'i loto fale

Noun

indoors

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

   I prefer the indoors to the outdoors.

Anagrams

• sordino, Doirons, sindoor, Sondrio, Dorions