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outdoor

adj
/ˌaʊtˈdɔː/UK

Etymology

From out- + door.

  1. inherited from *dʰwṓr✻
  2. inherited from *durz✻
  3. inherited from *dur✻
  4. inherited from duru
  5. inherited from dore
  6. prefixed as outdoor — “out + door”

Definitions

  1. Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.

  2. Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a…

    Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution.

    • 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.

  3. To publicly display a child after it has been named

The neighborhood

Derived

outdoor centre, outdoor education, outdoorish, outdoorness, outdoor officer, outdoor play, outdoor relief, outdoor voice, outdoorwear

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at outdoor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01outdoor02air03firmament04stars05outer06external07exterior

A definitional loop anchored at outdoor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at outdoor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA