English

Adjective

outdoor ‎(comparative more outdoor, superlative most outdoor)

1. Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:

     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, […].

Synonyms

• out-of-door

Antonyms

• indoor

Related terms

• outdoors

Derived terms

• outdoor education
• outdoor play

Translations

Portuguese

Etymology

From English outdoor.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /awt͡ʃ.ˈdɔɹ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /awt.ˈ(ð)ɔɹɨ/

Noun

outdoor m (plural outdoors)

1. billboard (very large advertisement along the side of a road)
   • Eduardo Peñuela Cañizal, Cartazes e outdoors na poética da intempérie in 2006, Significação, n. 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.