outer
/ˈaʊtɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An outer part.
noun
An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
Example Sentences
- "Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house."
- "'Phil Cornish' [a snowdrop variety] is like a cross between a pixie hat and a pagoda, with elegant upswept outers [outer petals] marked in a green colour-wash at the top and warpaint slashes at the lower end."
- "We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each."
- "From the early 90s, these were some of the fiercest debates raging in the gay press and in gay and straight bars worldwide as blabbermouths blabbed, sometimes just for the sheer hell of it, and gay celebrities ran for cover or bit the bullet and pipped the outers to the post."
- "The 51.4 per cent to 48.6 per cent victory of the "outers" broke the back of the Labour government."
- "Meanwhile, outers are disporting themselves on TV in luminous green ties, hand-woven by first years at the Dronefield Academy for the Sartorially Challenged."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈaʊtɚ/
- British English: /ˈaʊtə/
Usage
- British usage