OUT OF DOORS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does out of doors mean? 

• OUT OF DOORS (adverb)
  The adverb OUT OF DOORS has 1 sense:

1. outside a building

  Familiarity information: OUT OF DOORS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUT OF DOORS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Outside a building

Synonyms:

alfresco; out of doors; outdoors; outside

Context example:

in summer we play outside

 Context examples 

Mrs. Price, it appeared, scarcely ever stirred out of doors, except of a Sunday; she owned she could seldom, with her large family, find time for a walk.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“He had just looked into the dining-room, and as he was not wanted there, preferred being out of doors.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But I do not want any such pursuit to get me out of doors.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was a snowy day, I recollect, and you could not go out of doors.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You remember (to say nothing of our treatment) this same Creakle turning his son out of doors, I suppose, and the life he used to lead his wife and daughter?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you'll believe me, I did not once put my foot out of doors, though I was there a fortnight.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The young man was constantly employed out of doors, and the girl in various laborious occupations within.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They ought to be setting off for Uppercross by one, and in the meanwhile were to be all together, and out of doors as long as they could.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

All day long she dared not go out of doors, and when bedtime had come, the witch’s daughter got into bed first, so as to lie at the far side, but when she was asleep, the other pushed her gently to the front, and took for herself the place at the back, close by the wall.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He clambered up and down stairs, and went from the parlour to the bar and back again, and sometimes put his nose out of doors to smell the sea, holding on to the walls as he went for support and breathing hard and fast like a man on a steep mountain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)