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OUT-OF-DOOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does out-of-door mean?
• OUT-OF-DOOR (adjective)
The adjective OUT-OF-DOOR has 1 sense:
1. located, suited for, or taking place in the open air
Familiarity information: OUT-OF-DOOR used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Located, suited for, or taking place in the open air
Synonyms:
Context example:
a beautiful outdoor setting for the wedding
Similar:
alfresco; open-air (in the open air)
outdoorsy (characteristic of or suitable to outdoor life)
Also:
exterior (situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building)
Context examples
Then Jo and Meg, with a detachment of the bigger boys, set forth the supper on the grass, for an out-of-door tea was always the crowning joy of the day.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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