Crossword clues for outdoors
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outdoors \Out"doors`\, adv. Out of the house; out of doors; in the open air; abroad.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817, from outdoor + adverbial genitive. As a noun, "open spaces," recorded from 1857.
Wiktionary
adv. Not inside a house or under covered structure; unprotected; in the open air. n. (context often preceded by "the" English) The environment outside of enclosed structures; the natural environment in the open air.
WordNet
n. where the air is unconfined; "he wanted to get outdoors a little"; "the concert was held in the open air"; "camping in the open" [syn: out-of-doors, open air, open]
adv. outside a building; "in summer we play outside" [syn: outside, out of doors, alfresco] [ant: inside, inside]
Usage examples of "outdoors".
Then along came spring and the barding and wandering season, and everything indoors began looking unspeakably dreary, and everything outdoors began somehow pulling at me, and next thing I knew I was on my way.
Parisians still frequently left their own chill quarters, braving the even colder and danker outdoors, to flock to the theatres and indoor circuses.
The wizard walked slowly, talking to the owl all the way outdoors to what Flax fondly called his garden shed.
And he was sitting outdoors at the Baja Naja, toying with the remains of a perfectly agreeable if unspectacular lunch while discussing a kind of previously unsuspected diabolic state of being with an extensively parasitized visitor from another continent.
There are five deadly male subcultures and they all overlap: the car and machinery culture, the police and military culture, the outdoors and gun culture, the sports and competition culture and the drug and alcohol culture.
Electronic zap traps catch all kinds - good and bad - and for that reason we do not recommend their use outdoors.
Kenneka Road Trekker Supreme, brand new, judging by the paper license plate in the rear window, backed into their driveway and aimed at the great outdoors like a giant fun-seeking missile.
For the remainder of that summer and fall our children became true country sprites, practically living outdoors, and Trixy reveled in chasing squirrels, rabbits, and birds.
It fell on an evening of blizzard, when everyone was confined to the hall and Joscelin came in shivering from the outdoors with an armload of wood for the cookstove.
Joscelin came in shivering from the outdoors with an armload of wood for the cookstove.
The blackflies that descended in thick clouds upon anything that moved had died down enough to venture outdoors.
The children were already outdoors and Cyl and I got a cup of coffee and went out to survey the damage more closely.
Nothing but the dull, plopping footfalls of a mule leaving the hayrack and passing Longarm on its way outdoors.
It was outdoors, and had steel targets, a set just like those at the FBI Academy, with headplates, circular and roughly the size of a human head.
A basically levelheaded soul, Melena knew how very perilous the outdoors became after dark.