Definition of outsider
1 : a person who does not belong to a particular group
2 chiefly British : a contender not expected to win
outsiderness
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Examples of outsider in a Sentence
To outsiders, the ritual may seem strange.
She felt like an outsider in her new school.
An outsider defeated the champion!
She was a rank outsider who managed to win.
Recent Examples of outsider from the Web
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What better illustration of outsider-dom and moral superiority than a character standing to one side grimly observing the mother of the bride arrange the expensive and wrong flowers in anxious sprays.
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Outsiders may imagine those titles come relatively regularly.
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Peltz cited P&G's sluggish sales and profit rebound in recent years and said the board needed another outsider's perspective.
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But the football world has watched the Huskies fizzle over the past six years, five in the AAC, and the feeling that the program could be on the upswing has yet to win over many outsiders.
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Bannon remained a loyal outsider for most of the campaign.
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Whether outsiders played a decisive role in Tuesday's firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile is not publicly known.
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Reclusive North Korea has for decades relied on its weapons programs as a deterrent to outsiders.
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Now groups are getting more access to a nation with deep poverty as well as corruption and considerable suspicion of outsiders, working with Angolans to assess areas where wildlife was decimated and still faces pressure from poachers.
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First Known Use of outsider
1800
OUTSIDER Defined for English Language Learners
outsider
playDefinition of outsider for English Language Learners
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: a person who does not belong to or is not accepted as part of a particular group or organization
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: a person or animal that is not expected to win a race or competition
OUTSIDER Defined for Kids
outsider
playDefinition of outsider for Students
: a person who does not belong to a particular group
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