English
Etymology
From in + doors, originally two words, representing earlier within doors.[1]
Pronunciation
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.
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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
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Noun
indoors
- The interior of a building; the space inside buildings generally.
I prefer the indoors to the outdoors.
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