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in-doors

in-doors adjective: within, or taking place within a building.

Adjective

in-doors (not comparable)

  1. Within, or taking place within a building.
    • Breakfast was hurried over, for the day was too bright for in-doors discourse; the elastic spirits born of the glad clear atmosphere required motion, and the look wandered after the sunshine.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 48

Questions about in-doors

What does in-doors mean?
In-doors means within, or taking place within a building.
What part of speech is in-doors?
In-doors is an adjective.

Words near in-doors in the dictionary

  1. in-country
  2. in-crowd
  3. in-date
  4. in-depth
  5. in-depthness
  6. in-doors
  7. in-ear
  8. in-ear monitor
  9. in-ear monitors
  10. in-ears
  11. in-engine

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