outdoor

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English

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ door.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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outdoor (not comparable)

  1. Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air. [from 18th c.]
    Synonyms: alfresco, open-air, out-of-door, outside
    Antonyms: indoor, inside
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      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, [].
  2. Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution. [from 19th c.]
    • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 395:
      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.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • German: Outdoor
  • Japanese: アウトドア (autodoa)
  • Portuguese: outdoor
  • Spanish: outdoor

Translations

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Verb

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outdoor (third-person singular simple present outdoors, present participle outdooring, simple past and past participle outdoored)

  1. (in some African communities) To publicly display a child after it has been named
    (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Further reading

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Pseudo-anglicism, derived from outdoor.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔh], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔh]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔɾ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔɾ], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔɾ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔɾ]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔχ], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔχ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔɻ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔɻ], /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔɻ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔɻ]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌawtˈdɔɾ/ [ˌawtˈðɔɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌawtˈdɔ.ɾi/ [ˌawtˈðɔ.ɾi]

Noun

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outdoor m (plural outdoors)

  1. billboard (very large advertisement along the side of a road)
    Coordinate term: busdoor
    • 2006, Eduardo Peñuela Cañizal, “Cartazes e outdoors na poética da intempérie”, in Significação, volume 28, page 61:
      Tanto é assim que hoje, nas grandes cidades, os outdoors não somente são emoldurados, mas também protegidos para que o tempo não os deteriore.
      So much that today, in the big cities, billboards are not only framed, but also protected so that the weather doesn’t deriorate them.
    • 2024 September 10, Rebeca Oliveira, “Duolingo usa linguagem irreverente nas redes sociais para lembrar público de estudar”, in Folha de S.Paulo[1], São Paulo: Folha da Manhã, →ISSN:
      Quem vê um outdoor de uma coruja verde de pelúcia usando uma calcinha fio dental cor-de-rosa no meio de uma rua em Ribeirão Preto pode achar que está em um sonho sem pé nem cabeça.
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Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English outdoor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /audˈdoɾ/ [au̯ð̞ˈð̞oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ

Adjective

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outdoor (invariable)

  1. outdoor

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.