indoors

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   Inside, into, or within a building.

   We stayed indoors to avoid the brutal heat.

2. 2
   noun

   The interior of a building; the space inside buildings generally.

   I prefer the indoors to the outdoors.

3. 3
   adv

   within a building

Etymology

From in + doors, originally two words, representing earlier within doors.