out-of-doors

[out-uhv-dawrz, -dohrz]

adjective

1. Also out-of-door outdoor.

noun

1. (used with a singular verb),  outdoors.

out-of-doors

adverb

1. Also: outdoors. (postpositive) in the open air; outside

Word History and Origins

Origin of out-of-doors¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

Food and Drug Administration, requires that “pasture-raised” animals “had continuous, free access to the out-of-doors for a significant portion of their lives.”

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“When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type,” Roosevelt wrote.

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She pined away sitting on the ground out-of-doors where she could watch him, turning her face and following him with her eyes as he journeyed over the sky.

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Of all the catastrophic fates that can befall you in the out-of-doors, perhaps none is more eerily unpredictable than hypothermia.

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Eightysomethings hold onto the railings when going up and down stairs and rarely emerge out-of-doors if there is ice on the streets.

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Related Words

• breezy 
• uncluttered