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out of doors

out of doors is the dated form of outdoors.

Meaning of outdoors

Adverb

outdoors (not comparable)

  1. Not inside a house or under covered structure; unprotected; in the open air.
    • They went outdoors to light up their cigarettes.

See all 3 meanings of outdoors

Forms of out of doors

alternative formout-of-doors
alternative formout of door

Questions about out of doors

What is out of doors the dated form of?
Out of doors is the dated form of outdoors.

Words near out of doors in the dictionary

  1. out of control
  2. out of countenance
  3. out of course
  4. out of court
  5. out of date
  6. out of doors
  7. out of drawing
  8. out of fashion
  9. out of favor
  10. out of favour
  11. out of fix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out of doors (page history and authors); outdoors (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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