indoors

English

Etymology

From indoor + -s.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɔːz/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɔɹz/
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z

Adverb

indoors (not comparable)

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

Translations

in or into a building

Bulgarian: вътре (bg) (vǎtre), на закрито (na zakrito)
Catalan: a l'interior
Chinese:
Mandarin: 室內／室内 (zh) (shìnèi)
Dutch: indoor (nl)
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
Italian: dentro (it), al chiuso
Mongolian: дотор (mn) (dotor)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: innendørs
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

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

Anagrams

Doirons, Sondrio, sindoor, sordino

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