outdoor

From out- +‎ door.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌaʊtˈdɔː/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

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.

• outdoors

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

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

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• outdoor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from outdoor [advertising].

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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• “outdoor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “outdoor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Unadapted borrowing from English outdoor.

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

outdoor (invariable)

1. outdoor

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.