# outdoor
## English
### Etymology

From out- +‎ door.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌaʊtˈdɔː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

### Adjective

outdoor (not comparable)
* Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air. [from 18th c.]
    Synonyms: alfresco, open-air, out-of-door, outside
    Antonyms: indoor, inside
** 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].
* Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution. [from 19th c.]
** 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 395:Believing social policy should be directed by experts to bring about the greatest happiness of the greatest number, Benthamites judged the old Poor Law outdoor relief system a recipe for waste and idleness.

#### Derived terms

* outdoor centre
* outdoor education
* outdoor officer
* outdoor play
* outdoor relief
* outdoor voice

#### Related terms

* outdoors

#### Descendants

* → German: Outdoor
* → Japanese: アウトドア (autodoa)
* → Portuguese: outdoor
* → Spanish: outdoor

#### Translations
### Verb

outdoor (third-person singular simple present outdoors, present participle outdooring, simple past and past participle outdoored)
* (in some African communities) To publicly display a child after it has been named
    (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

### Further reading

* outdoor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from outdoor.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔh], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔh], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔɾ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔɾ], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔɾ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔɾ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔχ], /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔʁ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˌawt͡ʃˈdɔɻ/ [ˌaʊ̯t͡ʃˈdɔɻ], /ˌaw.t͡ʃiˈdɔɻ/ [ˌaʊ̯.t͡ʃiˈdɔɻ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˌawtˈdɔɾ/ [ˌawtˈðɔɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˌawtˈdɔɾ/ [ˌawtˈðɔɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˌawtˈdɔ.ɾi/ [ˌawtˈðɔ.ɾi]

### Noun

outdoor m (plural outdoors)
* billboard (very large advertisement along the side of a road)
    Coordinate term: busdoor
** 2006, Eduardo Peñuela Cañizal, “Cartazes e outdoors na poética da intempérie”, in Significação, volume 28, page 61:Tanto é assim que hoje, nas grandes cidades, os outdoors não somente são emoldurados, mas também protegidos para que o tempo não os deteriore.So much that today, in the big cities, billboards are not only framed, but also protected so that the weather doesn’t deriorate them.
** 2024 September 10, Rebeca Oliveira, “Duolingo usa linguagem irreverente nas redes sociais para lembrar público de estudar”, in Folha de S.Paulo‎, São Paulo: Folha da Manhã, →ISSN:Quem vê um outdoor de uma coruja verde de pelúcia usando uma calcinha fio dental cor-de-rosa no meio de uma rua em Ribeirão Preto pode achar que está em um sonho sem pé nem cabeça.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Further reading

* “outdoor”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “outdoor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outdoor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /audˈdoɾ/ [au̯ð̞ˈð̞oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ

### Adjective

outdoor (invariable)
* outdoor

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.