outdoor

outdoor

See also: Outdoor

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ door.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌaʊtˈdɔː/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

outdoor (not comparable)

1. Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air. [from 18th c.]

   Synonyms: out-of-door, outside

   Antonyms: indoor, inside

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎:

     A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].

2. Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 395:

     Believing social policy should be directed by experts to bring about the greatest happiness of the greatest number, Benthamites judged the old Poor Law outdoor relief system a recipe for waste and idleness.

Derived terms

• outdoor education
• outdoor play

Related terms

• outdoors

Descendants

• → German: Outdoor
• → Japanese: アウトドア (autodoa)
• → Portuguese: outdoor
• → Spanish: outdoor

Translations

situated in the open air

Bulgarian: външен (bg) (vǎnšen), на открито (na otkrito) Chinese: Mandarin: 戶外的／户外的 (zh) (hùwài de), 室外的 (zh) (shìwài de) Czech: venkovní (cs), outdoorový Dutch: buiten- Finnish: ulko- (fi), ulkoilma- (fi) French: de plein air, d’extérieur, en plein air (fr) Galician: ao ar libre German: Außen-, außerhalb des Hauses, im Freien, Freiluft- Greek: υπαίθριος (el) (ypaíthrios) Ancient Greek: ὑπαίθριος (hupaíthrios) Icelandic: útivistar- Japanese: 屋外の (ja) (おくがいの, okugai no), 室外の (ja) (しつがいの, shitsugai no), 戸外の (ja) (こがいの, kogai no) Norwegian: Bokmål: utendørs (no), utadørs, frilufts- Nynorsk: utandørs, frilufts- Portuguese: ao ar livre (pt) Russian: нару́жный (ru) (narúžnyj), вне́шний (ru) (vnéšnij), (проводимый (provodimyj)) на (na) открытом (otkrytom) воздухе (vozduxe) (na otkrýtom vózduxe) Swedish: utomhus (sv), ute (sv)

Verb

outdoor (third-person singular simple present outdoors, present participle outdooring, simple past and past participle outdoored)

1. (in some African communities) To publicly display a child after it has been named

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Further reading

• outdoor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Portuguese

FWOTD – 3 June 2022

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outdoor.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔh], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔh], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔɾ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔɾ], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔɾ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔχ], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔɻ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔɻ], /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔɻ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔɻ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌawtˈdɔɾ/ [ˌawtˈðɔɾ]

Noun

outdoor m (plural outdoors)

1. (Brazil) billboard (very large advertisement along the side of a road)
   • 2006, Eduardo Peñuela Cañizal, “Cartazes e outdoors na poética da intempérie”, in Significação, volume 28, page 61:

     Tanto é assim que hoje, nas grandes cidades, os outdoors não somente são emoldurados, mas também protegidos para que o tempo não os deteriore.

     So much that today, in the big cities, billboards are not only framed, but also protected so that the weather doesn’t deriorate them.

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outdoor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /audˈdoɾ/ [au̯ð̞ˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ

Adjective

outdoor (invariable)

1. outdoor

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.