exterior
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 8
/ɪkˈstɪəɹɪə/
(UK)
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/ɪkˈstɪəɹɪə/ (UK) · /ɛkˈstɪəɹɪə/ (UK) · /ɪkˈstɪɹiɚ/ (US) · /ɛkˈstɪɹiɚ/ (US)
Definition of exterior
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
“the exterior part of a sphere”
“Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was.”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
“the exterior part of a sphere”
“Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was.”
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(not-comparable)Being from outside a country; foreign.
“the exterior relations of a state or kingdom”
- (not-comparable)Outdoor.
noun
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The outside part, parts or surface of something.
“The sticker was attached to the exterior of the package”
“Before dissecting a shark to see how it manages to function so effectively, let us first examine its exterior.”
“[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.”
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Foreign lands.
“She is our new minister of the exterior”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin exterior.
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