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outside of

outside of preposition: outside.

Preposition

outside of

  1. Outside.
    • It never happens outside of the story-books that a baby so deserted finds home and friends at once.1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “Waifs of the City’s Slums”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 188
    • 'Don't think of what's past!' said she. 'I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?'1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter LVIII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the seventh...
  2. Aside from; besides.
    • Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 115–116
    • A book is a man’s best friend outside of a dog, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.1954, Jim Brewer, Boys' Life, volume 44, number 2, Think and Grin, page 78, column 1

Questions about outside of

What does outside of mean?
Outside of means outside.
What part of speech is outside of?
Outside of is a preposition.

Words near outside of in the dictionary

  1. outside jobs
  2. outside loop
  3. outside loops
  4. outside man
  5. outside men
  6. outside of
  7. outside passed pawn
  8. outside passed pawns
  9. outside the box
  10. outside voice
  11. outside voices

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