indoors

[in-dawrz, -dohrz]

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adverb

in or into a house or building: We stayed indoors during the storm.

Origin of indoors

1780–90; indoor + -s1

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Examples from the Web for indoors

Bastos took some pictures of Vidal indoors and in the garden.
Gore Vidal’s Tragic Final Decade|Tim Teeman|November 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The bus station itself is indoors, air-conditioned and even equipped with a Kosher McDonalds.
West Bank Buses Only The Latest In Israel's Segregated Public Transport|Anna Lekas Miller|March 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And maybe they are simply happy to be indoors, out of the high, dust-blowing winds that drove so many of their ranks to quit.
At the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a Steady Drip of Toxic Trouble|Eric Nusbaum|February 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
They ate chips and salsa and guacamole and steak fajitas and slept in a real bed for the first time in days, indoors.
We Survived the Triumph: Passengers Describe Their Doomed Carnival Cruise|Winston Ross, Eliza Shapiro, Sam Register|February 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST

He could smoke it indoors, with no fear of violating city ordinance.
My (Electronic) Cigarette Addiction|Eli Lake|January 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Although not played much nowadays it is very interesting and is to indoors what "mumble-the-peg" is to outdoors.
What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes|Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Indoors the hard-coal burner made a tropical temperature, and glowed a warm orange from its isinglass sides.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays|Willa Cather
A fright I got one night, however, kept me indoors for the better part of a week.
Memoirs of a Midget|Walter de la Mare
Jim claimed her when he was indoors; and they had many a merry bout.
A Little Girl of Long Ago|Amanda Millie Douglas
The latter may be indoors with his master, or, as Child thinks, calling to Robin through a window from below.
Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws|Frank Sidgwick

British Dictionary definitions for indoors

indoors

adverb, adjective

(postpositive) inside or into a house or other building

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indoors

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indoors

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