out-of-town

1. 1.

   happening in or being of another town or city

   “an out-of-town tryout”

   “an out-of-town school”

   Similardistant

Questions about out-of-town

What does out-of-town mean?

out-of-town means "happening in or being of another town or city".

How many syllables are in out-of-town?

out-of-town has 3 syllables and divides as ou-t-of--town under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is out-of-town a common word?

out-of-town is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.