Definition of Out-of-doors

1. Noun. Where the air is unconfined. "Camping in the open"

Exact synonyms: Open, Open Air, Outdoors
Generic synonyms: Exterior, Outside
Derivative terms: Open, Outdoorsy

Definition of Out-of-doors

1. Adverb. outdoors ¹

2. Noun. outdoors ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Out-of-doors

out-guns
out-herod
out-migration
out-of-band
out-of-battery
out-of-body
out-of-body experience
out-of-body experiences
out-of-bounds
out-of-bounds(p)
out-of-context
out-of-court
out-of-court settlement
out-of-date
out-of-door
out-of-doors (current term)
out-of-order
out-of-pocket
out-of-print
out-of-school
out-of-service
out-of-state
out-of-the-box
out-of-the-box thinking
out-of-the-way
out-of-the-way(a)
out-of-town
out-of-towner
out-of-universe
out-of-whack

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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