OPEN AIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does open air mean? 

• OPEN AIR (noun)
  The noun OPEN AIR has 1 sense:

1. where the air is unconfined

  Familiarity information: OPEN AIR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPEN AIR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Where the air is unconfined

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

open; open air; out-of-doors; outdoors

Context example:

camping in the open

Hypernyms ("open air" is a kind of...):

exterior; outside (the region that is outside of something)

 Context examples 

I can always think most sanely and clearly in the open air.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Most of the morning was spent in the open air.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was absolutely necessary to do it in the open air.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The more you are in the open air the lower the mobile's emissions.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“En avant, then!” cried Tranter shortly, and the whole assembly flocked out into the open air, save only those whom the special orders of their masters held to their posts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, the duck, who slept in the open air in the yard, heard them coming, and jumping into the brook which ran close by the inn, soon swam out of their reach.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He pushed me hastily into the open air, and closed the door upon us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Another little visit to the seashore would suit her better, and as Grandma could not be prevailed upon to leave the babies, Jo took Beth down to the quiet place, where she could live much in the open air, and let the fresh sea breezes blow a little color into her pale cheeks.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His manners now, though not polished, were more than passable: they were grateful, animated, manly; his expressions were those of an attached father, and a sensible man; his loud tones did very well in the open air, and there was not a single oath to be heard.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)