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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outsider
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
political
▪ A former Agrarian Reform Secretary, who campaigned as a political outsider.
▪ He is a political outsider, while Dole has been in Washington for 35 years.
▪ From the outset, Mrs Thatcher had the sense of being a political outsider.
▪ And he could no longer present himself as a political outsider.
▪ He lied when he ran for governor on the platform of being a successful businessman and political outsider.
rank
▪ So I went to Ladbrokes and picked two rank outsiders and put some money on them and left.
▪ Last year he started as a rank outsider for the title.
▪ Though ridden by Graham McCourt, then third in the jump jockeys' table, Norton's Coin was a rank outsider.
■ VERB
appear
▪ Education is being pushed more towards being an instrument of national policy, or so it would appear to an outsider.
become
▪ To cross them was to break tradition, to sever one's links and become an outsider.
▪ The babies became outsiders like Frankenstein's creation became an outsider when he was rejected.
▪ Shift the context and the same men become insiders as opposed to outsiders such as catholics and, presumably, even castle catholics.
feel
▪ That made me feel a bit of an outsider.
▪ Thus, whether one feels like an outsider or an insider, the story can be equally enchanting.
▪ Others feel outsiders are scuppering their chance of the bypass they have long wanted.
▪ They came from growing up always feeling he was an outsider and an outcast.
▪ Here he had always felt an outsider.
▪ Students do not need to be victims of racism, sexism, religious discrimination, or homophobia to feel like outsiders.
▪ Masha Cohen had always felt an outsider, vis-á-vis her more Westernised sisters-in-law.
▪ I always felt like an outsider around kids who did.
seem
▪ It can hold couples together in a way that may seem to the outsider against all reason.
▪ What seems clear to an outsider, however, is that in the Fouassis family survival seemed a precarious business.
▪ That's how it seemed to the mystified outsider.
▪ And the tenure of conductors, as of managers, can end in tears for reasons that seem incomprehensible to outsiders.
▪ The boom in dating services might seem odd to outsiders.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An outsider, for example someone from another school district, should evaluate the teachers.
▪ He started as a no-hoper -- a rank outsider for the title.
▪ Italian residents don't like to discuss the matter with outsiders.
▪ Smith, a little-known outsider with limited political experience, came from behind to score a surprise victory.
▪ The defending champion was beaten by an outsider in the first round.
▪ The university library is closed to outsiders.
▪ They've treated us like outsiders ever since we moved in.
▪ To outsiders, these ideological battles seem completely pointless.
▪ We don't want outsiders getting involved in our local politics.
▪ Why do they bring in outsiders to tell us how to run the business?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Here he had always felt an outsider.
▪ It means coming to a new country, always being the outsider, always having to adjust.
▪ They are often abandoned and eager for contact with outsiders.
▪ They were outsiders, too, and he determined he would stand by them as long as he could.
▪ This process has included verbal denigration as well as cruel and unusual treatment of those who are traditionally perceived as outsiders.
▪ To the outsider, the civilian, beat work was directed at controlling the street population.
▪ Whatever the truth, it is always convenient to blame outsiders for creating trouble.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outsider

Outsider \Out`sid"er\, n.

  1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. [Recent]
    --A. Trollope.

  2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.

  3. A horse which is not a favorite in the betting. [Cant]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outsider

1800, from outside; figurative sense of "a person isolated from conventional society" is first recorded 1907. The sense of race horses "outside" the favorites is from 1836; hence outside chance (1909).

Wiktionary
outsider

n. 1 One who is not part of a community or organization. 2 A newcomer with little or no experience in an organization or community. 3 A competitor or contestant who has little chance of winning; a long shot; a dark horse

WordNet
outsider
  1. n. someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group [syn: foreigner]

  2. a constestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win

Wikipedia
Outsider (Known Space)

The Outsiders are a fictional alien race in Larry Niven's Known Space series. They are many-limbed beings that are invariably described as a cat o'nine tails with a fattened handle. Their body composition includes ultra-cold superfluid helium.

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Outsider (comics)

Outsider is the name of three different characters in DC Comics.

Outsider (1997 film)

Outsider is a film produced in 1997 in Slovenia by writer and director Andrej Košak. The film was selected as the Slovenian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

The film takes place in the 1980 in the former Yugoslavia. It covers issues such as the former yugoslav punk scene and drug use in the year when Josip Broz Tito died.

The story begins in autumn 1979 when Sead Mulahasanović, whose father was a Warrant Officer (zastavnik) of Yugoslav People's Army moved to Ljubljana and started attending one of the local secondary schools. He immediately joined local punkers who formed a band. Because punk rock in Yugoslavia was not tolerated some of them quickly fell into trouble. Authorities were on high alert because Tito got seriously ill and was admitted to University Medical Centre Ljubljana. Sead spent a lot of time with his new friends because his father was devoted only to the army and wanted Sead to join the army school to become an officer or a pilot.

Sead fell in love with Metka, a girl from his class, so he also began spending his time with her. Then several things occurred: one of his friends was beaten by the Police and put to prison, he was punished by his father for not being devoted enough to the ideas of socialism, Metka got pregnant and they were again forced to move, so Sead should leave his life behind and start it anew. He didn't hold out any more and committed suicide - coincidentally it happened on the day when Tito died.

Outsider was the top grossing Slovenian film (91,000) until Branko Đurić's film Kajmak in marmelada (over 100,000 viewers).

Outsider (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, an outsider is a type of creature, or " creature type". Outsiders are at least partially composed of the essence (if not the material) of a plane other than the Prime Material Plane.

All outsiders have darkvision out to 60 feet. As a group, they have no other special abilities or immunities.

Most outsiders have the extraplanar subtype, but those that don't always have the native subtype and live on the Material Plane. Most extraplanar outsiders are from the Outer Planes, but some come from the Inner Planes.

Outsider (painting)

Outsider is a painting dated from 1988 by post-modern indigenous Australian artist Gordon Bennett. The painting focuses on issues of the increasing isolation Indigenous Australians feel in their own country, with the date the painting was painted in (1988) being the bicentennial anniversary of white settlement in Australia. The painting is 290 × 180 cm, and was painted on canvas using oil and acrylic.

"Outsider" was painted while Bennett was in art school. Bennett appropriates famous works Van Gogh, including "Vincent's Bedroom in Arles" and "Starry Starry Night", and uses the paintings to represent his own life. Bennett identifies with Van Gogh’s metaphysical quest for meaning and identity, in such a way that the decapitated figure could be interpreted to be either Bennett or Van Gogh. "Outsider" is a painting charged with feelings of the frustration and confusion of the Aboriginal peoples. He got his inspiration from the tragic things that happen between Indigenous Aboriginal people from Australia and the white settler.

Outsider (rapper)

Shin Ok-cheol ( Hangul: 신옥철; born 21 March 1983), known by his stage name Outsider (Hangul: 아웃사이더), is a South Korean rapper. He is known for his speed-rapping and is able to rap 21 syllables per second. After a conflict between Outsider and MC Sniper's label, Sniper Sound, in July 2013, Outsider left the label and signed with ASSA.

Outsider (2012 film)

Outsider is a 2012 Malayalam thriller film written and directed by Premlal, starring Sreenivasan, Indrajith, Ganga Babu and Pasupathy in the lead roles. It is produced by Gireesh under the banner of Gowri Meenakshi Movies, and is shot in Chalakudy in Kerala and Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu.

Outsider (Uriah Heep album)

Outsider is the 24th studio album by Uriah Heep. It was released in Europe in June 2014 by Frontiers Records. It was produced by Mike Paxman and it is the first album with new bassist Dave Rimmer. Cover art is created by Igor Morski.

Usage examples of "outsider".

Outsider was gone, vanished into the heart into the hidden subconscious of a billon linked minds.

He knew that Mason was attempting to understand why Brayen had told an outsider about them.

It was fierce and deadly and in the end the Outsiders, as those with the Z chromosome came to be called, were driven from this land, angry and manless, doomed to die away at last since none were born to replace them.

Family loyalty had prevented her from openly discussing his personal problems with an outsider, but Marcie had read between the lines of what she actually said.

Now to have these outsiders see me in the company of dumpy little Leeta, all milkweed and daisies hanging haphazardly around her ears.

However petty these activities may have appeared to outsiders, for Diefenbaker such occasions were a necessary relief from the racking, perpetual burden which the prime ministership lays on a man.

As for miserliness, if they bought the information about it from Outsiders, well, we know the Outsiders do not sell information cheaply.

Two months cut off in this relative desolation, two months of fishing and the stink of water and rot and mud and Parm all prickly with having outsiders in his hall.

Since Persico and his sergeants all felt handpicked and had all been together for so many years, and those bonds had been calcified by so many shared experiences, any newcomer, even a newly appointed team leader, was likely to be treated like an unproven outsider.

Outsiders in the tribe must have a protector, and so I claim protectorship over her by right of conquest.

This Jew, this perpetual outsider to all societies, becomes the symbol for a resurgent Anglo-American culture.

Outsiders would ask whether the sectarianism was there first and attached itself to the football, or was it that the 81 football created a focus and a stimulant for the sectarianism?

The Sharan merchants are unwilling even to allow the truth of their appearance to be known, walking among outsiders only when cloaked and veiled.

His mother, Amani, was an Outsider who originally heralded from the country of Saudi Arabia.

When old Paolo of Genoa had died they had been left with twenty-nine and Willem had promoted Alain of Arras from page to arbalist rather than take in an outsider.