out-of-doors
out-of-doors adverb: outdoors; outside.
Adverb
out-of-doors (comparative more out-of-doors, superlative most out-of-doors)
- outdoors; outside.
- Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29
Noun
out-of-doors
Adjective
out-of-doors (comparative more out-of-doors, superlative most out-of-doors)
- Primarily in the open rather than under the cover of habitation.
- Three children, with the rich brown and richer crimson colour, and the bright black eyes which mark a southern extraction, were rolling on the grass at a little distance; and close beside the fire were seated two men, with red kerchiefs knitted round their close-curled dark hair. There was...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 270
Forms of out-of-doors
| Adverb | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more out-of-doors |
| superlative | most out-of-doors |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more out-of-doors |
| superlative | most out-of-doors |
Questions about out-of-doors
- What does out-of-doors mean?
- Out-of-doors means outdoors; outside.
- What part of speech is out-of-doors?
- Out-of-doors can be an adverb, a noun or an adjective.
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