out of doors

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   outside a building

   “in summer we play outside”

   Synonymsoutsideoutdoorsalfresco

Questions about out of doors

What does out of doors mean?

out of doors means "outside a building".

What is another word for out of doors?

Close synonyms include outside, outdoors, alfresco. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is out of doors a common word?

out of doors is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.