outside

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English

Alternative forms

• owtside (obsolete)

Etymology

From out +‎ side.

Pronunciation

• (adjective): enPR: outʹsīd, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊt.saɪd/
• (adverb, noun, preposition): enPR: out-sīdʹ, IPA^(key): /aʊtˈsaɪd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd

Noun

outside (plural outsides)

1. The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
2. The external appearance of someone or something.

3. The space beyond some limit or boundary.
4. The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.

5. The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.

6. The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.

7. (surfing) The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.
8. (dated, UK, colloquial) A passenger riding on the outside of a coach or carriage.

Usage notes

• Rarely used with an.

Translations

Adjective

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

1. Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
2. Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
   • 1938 (believed written c.1933), H. P. Lovecraft, The Book,

     Dogs had a fear of me, for they felt the outside shadow which never left my side.
3. Away from the interior or center of something.
4. Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.
5. Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
6. (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.

7. Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.

8. (chiefly UK) Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.

9. (chiefly US) Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.

10. (of a person) Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)

    Antonym: inside

    • 2009, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Yoruba women, work, and social change (Indiana Univ. Pr.):

      The legitimacy and inheritance rights of children were questionable, because colonial law did not acknowledge the validity of an outside marriage contracted after a monogamous, Christian one.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:outside.

Translations

Adverb

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

1. To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.
   2. (colloquial) Not in prison.
2. Outdoors.

Translations

Preposition

outside

1. On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
   • 1919 June 28, the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany, Treaty of Versailles, Part IV—German Rights and Interests outside Germany,

     In territory outside her European frontiers as fixed by the present Treaty, Germany renounces all rights, titles and privileges whatever in or over territory which belonged to her or to her allies, and all rights, titles and privileges whatever their origin which she held as against the Allied and Associated Powers.
2. Beyond the scope, limits, or borders of.

   tourists from outside the country

3. Near, but not in.
   • 2002, Jane Green, Bookends, 2003 trade paperback edition, →ISBN, outside back cover:

     Jane Green […] lives outside New York City with her husband and children.

   • 2010 December, Patricia Corrigan, "Beyond Congregations", OY! (magazine section), St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 63, number 50, page 24:

     Kastner lives in University City with his wife, Leslie Cohen, who works for the Jewish Federation, and their 17-month-old old^[sic] son. Kastner grew up outside Cleveland.

4. (usually with “of”) Except, apart from.

Antonyms

• inside

Related terms

• withoutside

Translations

Verb

outside (third-person singular simple present outsides, present participle outsiding, simple past and past participle outsided)

1. (transitive) To ostracize or exclude.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• dies out, side out, sudoite, tedious