Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

outro

/ˈaʊt.ɹoʊ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English

Syllables: out-ro
IPA: /ˈaʊt.ɹoʊ/

5

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A portion of music at the end of a song.

Informal

noun

The closing sequence at the end of a film, television program, video game, etc.

Informal

Example Sentences

"[…] talking over the intro of a record and off the outro, weaving back and forth between two records spinning […]"
"Find the spot in the script where you want the outro to start fading up."
"2009, 24 September, Jude Rogers in The Guardian, The trouble with remastered records But then something happens on I Want You (She's So Heavy), two minutes into the song's intense outro, when a cloud of white noise comes in, […]"
"Having gone through the intro and stopped, the next click plays the outro of the current section and then hits the following script at the end of the outro animation:"

Etymology

Blend of out + intro, an analogy using out as the opposite of in. First attested in the title of the song The Intro and the Outro (1967), by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and written by Vivian Stanshall.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈaʊt.ɹoʊ/
British English: /ˈaʊ.tɹəʊ/

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

outros (plural)

Synonyms

extro

Antonyms

intro

Questions

How do you pronounce outro?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈaʊt.ɹoʊ/.
What does outro mean?: A portion of music at the end of a song.
Where does outro come from?: Blend of out + intro, an analogy using out as the opposite of in. First attested in the title of the song The Intro and the Outro (1967), by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and written by Vivian Stanshall.

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