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indoors

/ɪnˈdɔːz/US/ɪnˈdɔɹz/

indoors adverb: inside, into, or within a building.

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.

Noun

indoors

  1. The interior of a building; the space inside buildings generally.
    • I prefer the indoors to the outdoors.

indoors meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

indoors in Tamil

உள்ளகம்

indoors in Urdu

اندرون خانہ

indoors in Bengali

ঘরের ভিতরে, গৃহমধ্যে

indoors in Malayalam

വീട്ടിന്നകത്ത്, വീട്ടിനകത്തുവച്ച്
More languagesFewer languages
indoors in Kannada
ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ, ಮನೆಯೊಳಗೆ, ಒಳಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ
indoors in Assamese
ভিতৰ bhitor, ভিতৰত bhitorot

Examples of indoors in a sentence

  • Our new dog shows reluctance to go on walks, preferring to be indoors.
  • Smoking indoors is becoming a real no-no these days, in many places.
  • I stayed indoors all day, feeling indisposed to finish mowing the lawn.

All 40 example sentences with indoors

Antonyms of indoors

Origin of indoors

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

Words formed from indoors

Phrases with indoors

Words that rhyme with indoors

4 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about indoors

What does indoors mean?
Indoors means inside, into, or within a building.
What is indoors in Tamil?
Indoors in Tamil is உள்ளகம். See Indoors meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is indoors?
Indoors can be an adverb or a noun.
How do you pronounce indoors?
Indoors is pronounced /ɪnˈdɔːz/ (UK).

Words near indoors in the dictionary

  1. indoor soccer
  2. indoor voice
  3. indoor voices
  4. indoorness
  5. Indooroopilly
  6. indoors
  7. indoors voice
  8. indoors voices
  9. indoorsman
  10. indoorsmanship
  11. indoorsmen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: indoors (page history and authors); indoors (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indoors (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indoors (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indoors (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indoors (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ভিতৰ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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