outside

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English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From out +‎ side.

Pronunciation

  • (adjective): enPR: outʹsīd, IPA(key): /ˈaʊtsaɪd/
  • (adverb, noun, preposition): enPR: out-sīdʹ, IPA(key): /aʊtˈsaɪd/
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  • Rhymes: -aɪd

Noun

outside (plural outsides)

  1. The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
    • 1653, Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais, Gargantua, "The Author's Prologue to the First Book"
      Silenes of old swere little boxes, like those we now may see in the shops of apothecaries, painted on the outside with wanton toyish figures, as harpies, satyrs, bridled geese, horned hares, saddled ducks, flying goats, thiller harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, ...
    • 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives,
      The outside of the building gives no valuable clew.
    • 1911, Cab, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,
      The number of persons which the cab is licensed to carry must be painted at the back on the outside.
  2. The external appearance of something.
  3. The space beyond some limit or boundary.
    • (Can we date this quote by Spectator and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      I threw open the door of my chamber, and found the family standing on the outside.
    • 1967, The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster 1941,
      Have you seen my wife, Mr Jones? / Do you know what it's like on the outside?
    • 1982, Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, Malcolm Mclaren, Buffalo Gals
      Four buffalo gals go 'round the outside / 'Round the outside / 'Round the outside / Four buffalo gals go 'round the outside / And do-si-do your partners.
  4. The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
    It may last a week at the outside.
  5. (dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger riding on the outside of a coach or carriage.
    • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
      The outsides did as outsides always do. They were very cheerful and talkative at the beginning of every stage, and very dismal and sleepy in the middle […]

Usage notes

  • Rarely used with an.

Translations

Adjective

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

  1. Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
    The outside surface looks good.
    • 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career,
      Household drudgery, woodcutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish.
    • 1921, Ernest Leopold Ahrons, Steam Locomotive Construction and Maintenance,
      The tyres, which come from the steel manufacturers, are rolled without weld. They are bored inside to an internal diameter slightly less than the outside diameter of the wheel centre, on to which they have to be shrunk, the allowance being about 1/1000 of the diameter of the wheel centre.
  2. Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
  3. Away from the interior or center of something.
    • 2003, Timothy Noakes, Lore of Running, Human Kinetics (→ISBN), page 731:
      As the centripetal force is an inverse function of the radius of the curve, it follows that the runner in the outside lane will be less affected than the runner in the inside lane.
  4. Originating from or arranged by someone outside an organization, group, etc.
    The Board did not trust outside information about their rivals.
  5. Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
    • 2004, Viktor Zander, Identity and Marginality among New Australians: Religion and Ethnicity in Victoria's Slavic Baptist Community, Walter de Gruyter (→ISBN), page 88:
      Although a marriage to "one of ours" was encouraged, an outside marriage was not condemned if it would be to a believer of a similar faith. Some of the immigrants' children married Australians and joined Australian Churches.
  6. (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
    The first pitch is ... just a bit outside.
  7. Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.
    an outside estimate
  8. (of a person) Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)
    Antonym: inside
    • 1994, Caroline H. Bledsoe, Gilles Pison, Nuptiality in Sub-Saharan Africa: contemporary anthropological and demographic perspectives (Oxford University Press, USA):
      Isaac Nathan's Christian wife served as godmother to his outside son, born after their Christian marriage. She allowed the boy, but not his mother, to live with her, her husband, and their two children.
    • 2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, A&C Black (→ISBN), page 158:
      An 'outside wife' has limited social recognition and status because her husband typically refuses to declare her publicly as his wife. She also has much less social and politico-jural recognition than an 'inside wife' [...]
    • 2009, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Yoruba women, work, and social change (Indiana Univ. Pr.):
      The legitimacy and inheritance rights of children were questionable, because colonial law did not acknowledge the validity of an outside marriage contracted after a monogamous, Christian one.
    • 2013, John C.S. Fray, Janice G Douglas, Pathophysiology of Hypertension in Blacks, Springer (→ISBN), page 78:
      A husband will thus have responsibilities to his own household, as well as to those in which his “outside” children reside.
    • 2014, Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, Birgitte Soland, Gender, Kinship and Power, page 256:
      The latter is her “outside” child in reference to her conjugal tie at the time. Should she leave this man and move in again with the father of her first child, then the three younger children assume the place of “outside” children, [...]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:outside.

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Adverb

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

  1. To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.
    I am going outside.
    Residents of the city rarely ventured outside.
    2. (colloquial) Not in prison.
      • 1964, Merfyn Turner, A Pretty Sort of Prison, page 15:
        It is the prison that supports the image of the criminal [...] he's lost when he's outside.
  2. Outdoors.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess‎[1]:
      Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
    I slept outside last night.

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Preposition

outside

  1. On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
    • 1919 June 28, the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany, Treaty of Versailles, Part IV—German Rights and Interests outside Germany,
      In territory outside her European frontiers as fixed by the present Treaty, Germany renounces all rights, titles and privileges whatever in or over territory which belonged to her or to her allies, and all rights, titles and privileges whatever their origin which she held as against the Allied and Associated Powers.
    • 1905, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXVIII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
      Jurgis waited outside and walked home with Marija.
    • 1982, 97th Congress of the United States, Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982,
      There is jurisdiction over an offense under section 601 committed outside the United States if the individual committing the offense is a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence (as defined in section 101(a)(20) of the Immigration and Nationality Act).
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
      Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
  2. Beyond the scope, limits, or borders of.
    tourists from outside the country
  3. Near, but not in.
    • 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds,
      Up the hill Richmond town was burning briskly; outside the town of Richmond there was no trace of the Black Smoke.
    • 2002, Jane Green, Bookends, 2003 trade paperback edition, →ISBN, outside back cover:
      Jane Green […] lives outside New York City with her husband and children.
    • 2010 December, Patricia Corrigan, "Beyond Congregations", OY! (magazine section), St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 63, number 50, page 24:
      Kastner lives in University City with his wife, Leslie Cohen, who works for the Jewish Federation, and their 17-month-old old[sic] son. Kastner grew up outside Cleveland.
  4. (usually with “of”) Except, apart from.
    Outside of winning the lottery, the only way to succeed is through many years of hard work.

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