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outdoors

6 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) outdoors (adverb)
  2. 2) outdoors (noun plural but singular in construction)
  3. outdoor (adjective)
  4. out-of-door (adjective)
  5. out of doors (adverb)
  6. out-of-doors (noun plural but singular in construction)

1out·doors

adv \ˌau̇t-ˈdȯrz; ˈau̇t-ˈ\

Definition of OUTDOORS

: outside a building : in or into the open air
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Examples of OUTDOORS

  1. The game is meant to be played outdoors.
  2. He worked outdoors all afternoon.
  3. I went outdoors for some fresh air.

First Known Use of OUTDOORS

1755

Related to OUTDOORS

Synonyms: alfresco, out, outside
Antonyms: indoors
Related Words: without
Near Antonyms: in, inside, within
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Rhymes with OUTDOORS

Azores, indoors

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