outen
/ˈaʊtən/
outen preposition: out; out of; out from.
Preposition
outen
- Out; out of; out from.
- […] so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted.1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC
- And there was silence again. Then: ‘And you sent that girl away, didn't you? With the money outen that box?’1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN
Adjective
outen (comparative more outen, superlative most outen)
- Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.
- an outen man
Verb
outen (third-person singular simple present outens, present participle outening, simple past and past participle outened)
- To put out; extinguish.
- I shined the light directly in his eyes, temporarily blinding him, then outened it and ran through the tunnel in the dark as best I could, not knowing where I was going.2012, K. A. Kron, Shades of Gray, page 2017
- When Susan said good-night and they outened the lights and headed to their respective rooms, Lettie found her most treasured book of poems.2017, Beverly Lewis, The Missing, page 274
Proper noun capitalized: Outen
Outen (plural Outens)
- A surname from Dutch.
Forms of outen
| Preposition | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | out'n |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more outen |
| superlative | most outen |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | outens |
| present participle | outening |
| past participle | outened |
| past | outened |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Outens |
Origin of outen
From Middle English outen, uten, from Old English ūtan (“from outside, on the outside, without”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūtanā, from Proto-Germanic *ūtanē (“from without, outside of”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“up, over”). Cognate with Middle Low German ûten (“out, forth”), German außen (“outside, out”), Swedish utan (“without, free from”). More at out.
From out + -en.
* As an English surname, topographic surname from Middle English ove (“above”) (from Old English ufan) + toun (“village, town”). Also a variant of Oulton, Oughton (itself from Old English Ofa + tun). * As a Dutch surname, variant spelling of Ooten.
Words formed from outen
Questions about outen
- What does outen mean?
- Outen means out; out of; out from.
- What part of speech is outen?
- Outen can be a preposition, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce outen?
- Outen is pronounced /ˈaʊtən/.
Words near outen in the dictionary
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