English Explanatory Dictionary

inside

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The interior or inner part.
  2. The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
  3. The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
  4. The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
  5. A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.
  6. The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people.
adj
  1. Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
  2. Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
  3. Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
  4. Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
  5. Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
  6. At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
adv
  1. Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
  2. In or to prison.
  3. Indoors.
  4. Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.
prep
  1. Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
  2. Within a period of time.

Pronunciation

/ˈɪnsaɪd/ /ɪnˈsaɪd/ en-us-inside.ogg

Word forms

inside insides

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English ynneside English inside From Middle English ynneside; equivalent to in- + side. Compare German Innenseite (“inside”), Danish inderside (“inside”), Swedish insida (“inside”), Dutch binnenzijde (“inside”), German Low German Binnensied, Binnersied (“inside”), Saterland Frisian Binnersiede (“inside”).

Antonyms

outside

Related words

insider withinside

Derived words

color inside the lines colour inside the lines dark as the inside of a cow dead inside deep inside get inside someone's pants inside address inside back inside baseball inside-baseball inside centre inside-cylinder inside dealing inside diameter inside edge inside forward inside-forward inside information inside job inside joke inside lag inside lane inside left inside leg insideless inside line inside loop insidely inside man insideness inside of inside-out inside out inside-out flower inside-outness inside pocket insider insiderdom inside right insiderish insiderism insiderly insiderness insidery inside salesman inside scoop inside story inside straight inside straight draw inside-the-Beltway inside the box inside-the-parker inside-the-park homer inside track inside trading inside voice inside work it's what's inside that counts know inside and out on the inside

Translations

Albanian: përbrënda Arabic: فِي بَطْن Arabic: ضِمْن Arabic: دَاخِل Arabic: جُوَّة Armenian: մեջ Armenian: ներս Aromanian: nuntru (roa-rup) Belarusian: усярэ́дзіне Belarusian: унутры́ Belarusian: уну́тр Belarusian: уну́тар Bulgarian: вътре Bulgarian: навътре Catalan: dins Catalan: dintre Catalan: endins Catalan: endintre Chamicuro: yilijko shana Chinese Mandarin: 裡邊 /里边 Chinese Mandarin: 裡面 /里面 Czech: uvnitř Czech: dovnitř Dalmatian: drante Danish: ind Danish: inde Danish: indenfor Dutch: binnen Esperanto: ene Esperanto: interne Estonian: sees Finnish: sisäpuolella Finnish: sisällä Finnish: sisään French: dedans French: au-dedans French: là-dedans French: à l’intérieur German: drinnen German: dine German: hinenie German: ii German: hinein Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰 Greek: μέσα Ancient Greek: ἔνδον Ancient Greek: ἔσω Ancient Greek: εἴσω Hebrew: בִּפְנִים Hindi: अंतः Hindi: अंदर Hindi: भीतर Hungarian: bent Hungarian: be Ingrian: sises Ingrian: sissee Istriot: drento Italian: dentro Italian: all'interno Japanese: 中に Central Kurdish: ژوورەوە Central Kurdish: ژوورێ Northern Kurdish: hindir Northern Kurdish: jûr Latgalian: vydā Latin: intus Latin: intrā Latvian: iekšā Lithuanian: viduje Lombard: denter Macedonian: внатре Malayalam: അകത്ത് Malayalam: ഉള്ളിൽ Māori: ki roto Mòcheno: drinn Mongolian: дотор
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