outbuilding

[ out-bil-ding ]

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noun

a detached building subordinate to a main building.

Origin of outbuilding

First recorded in 1620–30; out- + building

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How to use outbuilding in a sentence

The novel centers on the “china room,” an outbuilding on a farm in rural Punjab where, in 1929, the three wives of three brothers sleep and cook for their husbands and dictatorial mother-in-law.
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We explored the outbuildings of Mass MoCA, a contemporary art museum that occupies a former printing factory.
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Though they are often rented, it doesn’t hurt to have an industrial unit on-hand if you have a large home with outbuildings, rental properties, or own commercial real estate.
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All the other outbuildings were lost and, most cruelly, his beloved truck, the one he dreamed of taking to Texas on his last road trip.
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Zandvliet works out of an outbuilding next to a residential home.
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He tried to remember whether a tree or roof of an outbuilding against any of the windows made this means of escape possible.
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A third outbuilding puzzled the Murnan carpenters even more than the two-storied wooden house and the enormous barn.
Blind Man's Lantern | Allen Kim Lang
The building was a dingy yellow-brick residence outside the village, with the schoolroom as an outbuilding of lath and plaster.
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And Harlan saw Woodward come from behind an outbuilding, look toward the ranchhouse, and then walk slowly toward them.
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Another crash and quaking, and this time in a cloud of dust an outbuilding jumped and tumbled asunder.
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British Dictionary definitions for outbuilding

outbuilding

/ (ˈaʊtˌbɪldɪŋ) /

noun

a building subordinate to but separate from a main building; outhouse

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