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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outbuilding
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any farm outbuildings or their contents or any liability for domestic employees engaged for farm work are excluded.
▪ Every shed and garage and outbuilding had been searched.
▪ He's the local landowner - those fields at the back of these outbuildings are part of his estate.
▪ In the outbuildings scattered in the farmstead, workers store supplies, build the products and pack them for shipping.
▪ The outbuilding used as a mortuary was round the back.
▪ The ranch house, corral and outbuildings have been restored and contain exhibits, photographs and period furniture.
▪ This advice also works for decks, gazebos and other outbuildings.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outbuilding

Outbuild \Out*build"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Outbuiltor Outbuilded; p. pr. & vb. n. Outbuilding.] To exceed in building, or in durability of building.

Outbuilding

Outbuilding \Out"build`ing\, n. A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse.

Wiktionary
outbuilding

n. A building, such as a barn, shed, or garage, that is separate from, but associated with some main building

WordNet
outbuilding

n. a building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building

Usage examples of "outbuilding".

CHAPTER IV ALPHONSE AND HIS ANNETTE After dinner we thoroughly inspected all the outbuildings and grounds of the station, which I consider the most successful as well as the most beautiful place of the sort that I have seen in Africa.

Over the whole scene of rickyard, garden, outbuildings, horsepond and orchard, brooded that air which seems rightfully to belong to out-of-the-way farmyards, an air of wakeful dreaminess which suggests that here, man and beast and bird have got up so early that the rest of the world has never caught them up and never will.

The big white-harled farmhouse sat serenely in the middle of pale green fields of oats and barley, its windows and chimneys edged in gray stone, the walled kailyard and the numerous outbuildings clustering around it like chicks round a big white hen.

Donal kept men with tubs of water continually on the alert, and even some of the women were pressed into service watching for fires and hauling tubs of water where they could be used at once to extinguish fires in the wooden outbuildings.

Also, the ten acres have come pretty close to paying for the whole twenty, as well as for this house, and all the outbuildings, and all the pedigreed stock.

Now I was at the door in the high wall that enclosed the outbuildings at the back of the house, and there, by an inspiration, pulled up the mare--glad enough she was to stop, poor thing--for it occurred to me that if I rode to the front I should very probably be assegaied and of no further use.

The stables, mews, kennel, and chickenyard banished to new outbuildings.

The broad courtyard was bordered on two sides by long, low outbuildings which Cressida judged to be stables and mews.

An assortment of annexes and outbuildings formed jumbled extensions at both ends.

It was very solidly built of brown stone, and, with the exception of the waggon-shed and other outbuildings which were roofed with galvanised iron, that shone and glistened in the rays of the morning sun in a way that would have made an eagle blink, was covered with rich brown thatch.

He hid, found jobs in distant outbuildings and fields, but always the boy discovered him, as if by some magic sense, and materialised behind or beside him with the two books, the two pencils.

I saw that each building was interconnected, the main polygonal stone building throwing out wings and offshoots and outbuildings covering several acres of ground.

There were three more tiny outbuildings, but they had all but collapsed.

The black, contorted silhouette of the first dead crabapple tree along the driveway was visible, but the barn and outbuildings had disappeared.

When Dale came outside, they retreated to the fields or disappeared behind the outbuildings and barn.