outdoor

See also: Outdoor

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ door.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌaʊtˈdɔː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

outdoor (not comparable)

1. Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air. [from 18th c.]

   Synonyms: alfresco, open-air, out-of-door, outside

   Antonyms: indoor, inside

   • 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, […].

2. 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.

Derived terms

• outdoor centre
• outdoor education
• outdoor officer
• outdoor play
• outdoor relief
• outdoor voice

 

Related terms

• outdoors

Descendants

• → German: Outdoor
• → Japanese: アウトドア (autodoa)
• → Portuguese: outdoor
• → Spanish: outdoor

Translations

situated in the open air

• Armenian: բացօթյա (hy) (bacʻōtʻya), բացօդյա (hy) (bacʻōdya)
• Bulgarian: външен (bg) (vǎnšen), на открито (na otkrito)
• Catalan: a l'aire lliure
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 露天 (lou⁶ tin¹)

  Hokkien: 天露 (thiⁿ-lō͘), 露天 (lō͘-thiⁿ)

  Mandarin: 戶外的 / 户外的 (zh) (hùwài de), 室外的 (zh) (shìwài de), 露天 (zh) (lùtiān)

• Czech: venkovní (cs), outdoorový
• Dutch: buiten-
• Finnish: ulko- (fi), ulkoilma- (fi)
• French: de plein air, d’extérieur, en plein air (fr), découvert (fr)
• Galician: ao ar libre, ao aire libre
• German: Außen-, außerhalb des Hauses, im Freien, Freiluft-
• Greek: υπαίθριος (el) (ypaíthrios)

  Ancient Greek: ὑπαίθριος (hupaíthrios), ὕπαιθρος (húpaithros),

• Hungarian: szabadtéri (hu), kültéri, kinti (hu), (ambiguous) nyitott (hu), szabad ég alatti, szabadban lévő/történő, (technical, “opencast”) külszíni (hu), a szabadban való/történő/fogyasztott
• Icelandic: útivistar-
• Italian: a cielo aperto, all'aperto (it), fuori (it), all'aria aperta
• Japanese: 屋外の (ja) (おくがいの, okugai no), 室外の (ja) (しつがいの, shitsugai no), 戸外の (ja) (こがいの, kogai no), 青空 (ja) (aozora), 屋外 (ja) (okugai), 露天 (ja) (roten)
• Korean: 노천 (nocheon), 로천 (rocheon), 한데 (ko) (hande)
• Maltese: fil-beraħ
• Maori: o waho whare
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utendørs (no), utadørs, frilufts-

  Nynorsk: utandørs, frilufts-

• Portuguese: ao ar livre (pt), a céu aberto (pt)
• Russian: нару́жный (ru) (narúžnyj), вне́шний (ru) (vnéšnij), (проводи́мый (provodímyj)) на откры́том во́здухе (na otkrýtom vózduxe), под откры́тым не́бом (ru) (pod otkrýtym nébom)
• Spanish: al aire libre, al fresco
• Swedish: utomhus (sv), ute (sv), frilufts- (sv)

Verb

outdoor (third-person singular simple present outdoors, present participle outdooring, simple past and past participle outdoored)

1. (in some African communities) To publicly display a child after it has been named

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Further reading

• outdoor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

FWOTD – 3 June 2022

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from outdoor.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔh], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔh], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔɾ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔɾ], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔɾ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔχ], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔɻ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔɻ], /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔɻ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔɻ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌawtˈdɔɾ/ [ˌawtˈðɔɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌawtˈdɔɾ/ [ˌawtˈðɔɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌawtˈdɔ.ɾi/ [ˌawtˈðɔ.ɾi]

Noun

outdoor m (plural outdoors)

1. billboard (very large advertisement along the side of a road)

   Coordinate term: busdoor

   • 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], São Paulo: Folha da Manhã, →ISSN:

     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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “outdoor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “outdoor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outdoor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /audˈdoɾ/ [au̯ð̞ˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ

Adjective

outdoor (invariable)

1. outdoor

Usage notes

According 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.