STEP OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does step out mean? 

• STEP OUT (verb)
  The verb STEP OUT has 1 sense:

1. go outside a room or building for a short period of time

  Familiarity information: STEP OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEP OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go outside a room or building for a short period of time

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "step out" is one way to...):

exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

The man attempted to step out of his circle of flame, but the wolves surged to meet him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If you are single, you must be happy as you will have your choice of when to step out!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Be of good cheer, Richard; step out—that's it!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

See how les petites cheries step out for the credit of their master.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The doctor and I will remain on guard, Mr. Pycroft, if you will have the kindness to step out for the police.

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

Now, here one can step out of doors and get a thing in five minutes.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one there!

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

Had the doctor been contented to take my dining-table when I came away, as anybody in their senses would have done, instead of having that absurd new one of his own, which is wider, literally wider than the dinner-table here, how infinitely better it would have been! and how much more he would have been respected! for people are never respected when they step out of their proper sphere.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My master’s design was to show me in all the towns by the way, and to step out of the road for fifty or a hundred miles, to any village, or person of quality’s house, where he might expect custom.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Let’s now turn to your romantic life, one of your favorite topics. Be sure to step out!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)