Outdoor

Quick meaning: Outdoor is an adjective meaning Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.

Meaning

Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.

More Meanings

1. Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution.
2. (in some African communities) To publicly display a child after it has been named

Example Sentences

Believing social policy should be directed by experts to bring about the greatest happiness of the greatest number, Benthamites judged the old Poor Law outdoor relief system a recipe for waste and idleness.

A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].

Word Forms

• outdoors
• outdooring
• outdoored

Synonyms for outdoor

Depending on context, synonyms include alfresco, open-air, outside.

Antonyms for outdoor

Common opposites include indoor, inside.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outdoorsy, alfresco, open-air, outside, overseas, exterior.

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