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Synonyms for exterior


Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : ik-steer-ee-er
Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈstɪər i ər

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Définition of exterior

Origin :
  • 1520s, from Latin exterior, comparative of exterus "on the outside, outward, outer, of another country, foreign," itself a comparative of ex "out of" (see ex-). As a noun from 1590s.
  • adj outside
  • noun visible part
Example sentences :
  • Hawarden is called a Castle, but it has not, either in its exterior or interior, the aspect of a Castle.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • The exterior is not remarkable, but the beauty of the internal ornament is most striking.
  • Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home
  • This change, if it deteriorated his mind, improved his exterior.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • It was a large house; but low and straggling; and unpretending in its exterior.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • The Tuttle person under an exterior geniality was rather abrupt.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • No rasping essences, none of the exterior of blackness and crêpe.
  • Extract from : « Rosinante to the Road Again » by John Dos Passos
  • The windows do not cut into the exterior cornice of the dome.
  • Extract from : « Byzantine Churches in Constantinople » by Alexander Van Millingen
  • To the exterior of the walls and the apses some decoration is now applied.
  • Extract from : « Byzantine Churches in Constantinople » by Alexander Van Millingen
  • The inside of the house was even huger than I had thought from the look of the exterior.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • The present exterior of the castle denotes its former magnificence.
  • Extract from : « England, Picturesque and Descriptive » by Joel Cook

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