outdoor
See also: Outdoor
English
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editoutdoor (not comparable)
- Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air. [from 18th c.]
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].
- Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution. [from 19th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 395:
- Believing social policy should be directed by experts to bring about the greatest happiness of the greatest number, Benthamites judged the old Poor Law outdoor relief system a recipe for waste and idleness.
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editsituated in the open air
Verb
editoutdoor (third-person singular simple present outdoors, present participle outdooring, simple past and past participle outdoored)
- (in some African communities) To publicly display a child after it has been named
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editPortuguese
editEtymology
editPseudo-anglicism, derived from outdoor.
Pronunciation
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Noun
editoutdoor m (plural outdoors)
- billboard (very large advertisement along the side of a road)
- 2006, Eduardo Peñuela Cañizal, “Cartazes e outdoors na poética da intempérie”, in Significação, volume 28, page 61:
- Tanto é assim que hoje, nas grandes cidades, os outdoors não somente são emoldurados, mas também protegidos para que o tempo não os deteriore.
- So much that today, in the big cities, billboards are not only framed, but also protected so that the weather doesn’t deriorate them.
- 2024 September 10, Rebeca Oliveira, “Duolingo usa linguagem irreverente nas redes sociais para lembrar público de estudar”, in Folha de S.Paulo[1]:
- Quem vê um outdoor de uma coruja verde de pelúcia usando uma calcinha fio dental cor-de-rosa no meio de uma rua em Ribeirão Preto pode achar que está em um sonho sem pé nem cabeça.
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Spanish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English outdoor.
Pronunciation
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editoutdoor (invariable)
Usage notes
editAccording to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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