Definition of Out of doors

1. Adverb. Outside a building. "In summer we play outside"

Exact synonyms: Alfresco, Outdoors, Outside
Antonyms: Indoors, Inside

Definition of Out of doors

1. Prepositional phrase. Not inside any building. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Out Of Doors

out like a light
out loud
out of
out of action
out of all proportion
out of bounds
out of breath
out of breath(p)
out of business
out of character
out of commission
out of condition
out of context
out of control
out of date
out of doors (current term)
out of fashion
out of fix
out of focus
out of gas
out of gear(p)
out of hand
out of house and home
out of it
out of joint
out of kilter
out of line
out of luck
out of nothing
out of nowhere

Literary usage of Out of doors

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1875)
"The experiment was next continued out of doors. and it was not until the weight had been dropped from a height of 5-75 ..."

2. The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year (1843)
"Introductory Debate on the Corn-laws on 9th February—Extraordinary interest manifested in the House of Commons, and out of doors— ..."

3. Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by William Walker Wilkins (1860)
"THE HOUSE out of doors. [Mr. Carlyle, in his Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, gives the following graphic ..."

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