Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being or done out of the house; open-air: as, out-of-door exercise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective located, .
- adjective Being out of the house; being, or done, in the open air; suited for the open air; outdoor. See Out of door, under
out , adv.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
outdoor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective located, suited for, or taking place in the open air
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Examples
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With the out-of-door world he had no understanding nor tolerance.
Chapter XVIII 2010
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To be fair, a good number of these persons were once good at riding horses, shooting guns, sailing yachts, and/or participating in bobsleigh competitions, among other hearty out-of-door recreations of the very rich.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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"Being out-of-door people, fond of water, the home was built around a patio, in the center of which is a water pool or tank of solid concrete forty by fifteen feet and six feet deep, fed by water from a cold mountain spring, and in which black bass will be kept, and where one may occasionally take a plunge ... if he is brave and hardy enough."
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To be fair, a good number of these persons were once good at riding horses, shooting guns, sailing yachts, and/or participating in bobsleigh competitions, among other hearty out-of-door recreations of the very rich.
Kissing Their Rings 2009
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As we were walking along together, I inquired whether at the meeting I should remove my cap, and he said no; that in an out-of-door presentation it was not etiquette to uncover if in uniform.
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The Secretary of Commerce, Robert Patterson, broadcast the same cheer in March: "With the usual increase in out-of-door work in the Northern states as weather conditions moderate, we are likely to find the country enjoying the accustomed state of prosperity."
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Too much exercise, especially unsupervised, could threaten a girl's future health and fertility; the "free out-of-door life, so priceless when properly conducted, may prove to be the path to pain and weakness, if not to permanent invalidism."
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
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Live an out-of-door life there, until you are fetched away.
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Live an out-of-door life there, until you are fetched away.
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One chief out-of-door employment seems to have been wood-cutting and felling.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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