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withoutdoors

withoutdoors adverb: outdoors.

Adverb

withoutdoors (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) outdoors
    • The candles alight in the room / For my parting meal / Made all things withoutdoors loom / Strange, ghostly, unreal.1917, Thomas Hardy, At the Word 'Fairwell'

Origin of withoutdoors

From without (“outside of, beyond”) + doors.

Questions about withoutdoors

What does withoutdoors mean?
Withoutdoors means outdoors.
What part of speech is withoutdoors?
Withoutdoors is an adverb.

Words near withoutdoors in the dictionary

  1. without trace
  2. without troubling the scorers
  3. without welt or guard
  4. without-door
  5. withoutcha
  6. withoutdoors
  7. withoute
  8. withoutforth
  9. withoutness
  10. withoutside
  11. withoutward

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