Outdoor
['aʊtdɔː] or ['aʊt'dɔr]
Definition
(adj.) pertaining to or concerning the outdoors or outdoor activities; 'outdoor education is the area of teacher training concerned with training for outdoor activities' .
(adj.) located, suited for, or taking place in the open air; 'outdoor clothes'; 'badminton and other outdoor games'; 'a beautiful outdoor setting for the wedding' .
Typist: Tabitha--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients.
Typed by Billie
Definition
adj. outside the door or the house: in the open air.—adv. Out′doors out of the house: abroad.—Outdoor relief help given to a pauper who does not live in the workhouse.
Edited by Barton
Examples
- There is something in what the fellow says about outdoor work, he remarked, so I think, Watson, that I must leave you to your papers for a little. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Glass plates are heavy and inconvenient to carry, so that celluloid films have almost entirely taken their place, at least for outdoor work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I should like to have to do with outdoor things. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Oh, outdoor things--business. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is not uncommon to find an outdoor laborer consuming one pound of beans per day, and taking meat only on high days and holidays. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He was strong and vigorous, fond of outdoor sports, and also considerable of a student. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The megaphone has been found very useful in speaking to large outdoor crowds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The outdoor exercise will do me good, and who knows but that in a few months I shall be able to go on with my reading again? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We could go out to the park and have breakfast outdoors. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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