Outbuilding
['aʊtbɪldɪŋ] or ['aʊt'bɪldɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outbuild
(n.) A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse.
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Definition
n. a building separate from but used in connection with a dwelling-house or a main building: an outhouse.
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Examples
- Mr. Yorke, after having alighted from his gig, which he left in charge of a man who issued from an outbuilding on his arrival, led the way in. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then there was a valley that no one held except for a fascist post in a farmhouse with its outbuildings and its barn that they had fortified. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Not resting satisfied with giving that much chace to Mrs Boffin's fancies, they pursued them into the yard and outbuildings, and under the Mounds. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Further ahead were dimly visible an irregular dwelling-house, garden, and outbuildings, backed by a clump of firs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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