INDOORS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indoors mean? 

• INDOORS (adverb)
  The adverb INDOORS has 1 sense:

1. within a building

  Familiarity information: INDOORS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDOORS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Within a building

Synonyms:

indoors; inside

Context example:

in winter we play inside

Antonym:

outdoors (outside a building)

 Context examples 

Injuries can happen at work or play, indoors or outdoors, driving a car, or walking across the street.

(Injuries, NIH)

So they went indoors together and sat down, and the man brought out the bread, meat, and wine, which although he had eaten and drunk of them, were still unconsumed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They have no indoors man, else they do not want for any thing; and Mrs. Martin talks of taking a boy another year.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This new biocidal approach targets mosquitoes biting and resting outdoors as well as indoors, and may be less vulnerable to the problem of insecticide resistance.

(Genetically modified fungus hailed as malaria breakthrough, SciDev.Net)

The fungus is very common in both indoors and outdoors.

(Aspergillosis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

“Keep indoors, men,” said the captain. “Ten to one this is a trick.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I shall stand by him, therefore, and he shall neither be put out on the road, nor shall his ears be offended indoors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You're a scholar,” he said, hurriedly, “and know what's right and best. What am I to say, indoors? How am I ever to break it to him, Mas'r Davy?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“You stay too much indoors,” said the lawyer.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We have been conducing a chemical experiment indoors which has left our little room hardly fit for the reception of so distinguished a visitor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)