out of doors
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "You are allowed to smoke out of doors."
- "The cat was out of doors, seemingly enjoying the sun."
- "[U]pon the whole she spent her time comfortably enough; there were half hours of pleasant conversation with Charlotte, and the weather was so fine for the time of year, that she had often great enjoyment out of doors."
- "All things that love the sun are out of doors; / The sky rejoices in the morning's birth;"
- "I said I would do anything—dig, weed, collect slugs, anything at all, but he must let me work. Work with my hands out of doors was the only thing I felt I could bear to-day. It wasn't the first time, I reflected, that peace has been found among cabbages."
- "[I]n our cold Northern winters, out of doors, carried by hillwalkers, mountaineers or hunters, when it [chocolate] splinters in the hand, hard and brittle at those low temperatures, it is a valuable and harmless food."
Usage
Inflected Forms
out-of-doors (alternative)
out of door (alternative)