inside

Meanings

Noun

• The interior or inner part.
• The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
• 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.
• The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
• A passenger within a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
• Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
• Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
• Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); existing between two such people.
• Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
• 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.

Adverb

• Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
• Indoors.
• Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.

Related

Opposite words

• outside

Origin

• 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, Saterland Frisian Binnersiede ("inside").