单词 | indoors |
释义 | indoors (once / 1353 pages) adv If you're indoors, you're inside a house or other building. On the hottest, most sweltering summer days, you might decide to stay indoors where it's cool. During a typical school day, elementary school students spend most of their time indoors, reading, writing, doing math, singing songs, and painting pictures. When they leave the indoors and go outside for recess, you can say they're outdoors. Indoors, first used around 1800 (sometimes attributed to George Washington), comes from indoor, a shortened form of within door. WORD FAMILYindoors USAGE EXAMPLESHe first became interested in growing crops indoors in the two-thousand-aughts. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Since his accident, he’s done more of his bicycle training indoors, and been surprised by how efficient it is. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Smith-Schuster appeared at the media day event sweating and wearing a coat indoors. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) adv within a building Syn|Ant inside alfresco, out of doors, outdoors, outside outside a building |
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