# indoors

Pronunciation: US say "in-DORZ" /ɪnˈdɔɹz/; UK say "in-DAWZ" /ɪnˈdɔːz/

## Adverb

1. In or into a building rather than out in the open air.
   - Simple: Inside a building, or going into a building.
   - _When the storm hit, everyone hurried indoors._
   - _She works indoors all week and misses the sunlight by Friday._

## Noun

2. Enclosed space inside a building or buildings, as opposed to the open air outside.
   - Simple: The inside of a building, or inside spaces in general.
   - _He traded the indoors for a month of hiking in the mountains._
   - _A long, gray winter kept them confined to the indoors for weeks._

## Origin

Formed from 'in' + 'doors', originally written as two words, representing the earlier phrase 'within doors'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/indoors (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).