Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A building separate from but associated with a main building.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building near or subordinate to a main building; an outhouse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
building , such as a barn,shed , orgarage , that isseparate from, butassociated with some main building
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building
Etymologies
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Examples
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What remained of the outbuilding was a heap of redstone, discolored by soot and ashes.
Soarer's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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The walk from his home to the outbuilding was a short one.
Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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The photograph of the outbuilding is their sugar shack where they make the most delicious, sweet maple syrup in March.
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At the time of the slaying, Hernandez was staying in the metal outbuilding, which is owned by some of his relatives and where Garcia also sometimes stayed the night, according to sheriff's investigators.
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When Obama spoke of innovation and "outbuilding" the rest of the world, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) joined Democrats in applause, but his seatmate, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), stared straight ahead.
A spirit of camaraderie, at least for a while Philip Rucker 2011
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It appeared that, with the exception of a very little, they had stored their powder in a kind of outbuilding which they constructed, placing it at a distance for safety's sake.
Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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"The walk from his home to the outbuilding was a short one.
Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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House was therefore a kind of inorganic addition to pent-, a renovated Germanic structure attached to the older, Franco-Latin outbuilding.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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House was therefore a kind of inorganic addition to pent-, a renovated Germanic structure attached to the older, Franco-Latin outbuilding.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The aircraft hangs in an outbuilding in the yard of his retirement home.
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