Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
-     Same as out-of-door .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any location outside of any building, where the air is unconfined; the open air.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb   outdoors 
- noun   outdoors 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb outside a building
- noun where the air is unconfined
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Examples
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								Today, Mr. Royer, a straight shooter with weathered looks that confirm a life lived out-of-doors, is one of the industry's elder statesmen, as well as president of the Heli-Ski U.S. Association. Heli-Skiing in Nevada's Ruby Mountains Andrew McCarthy 2011 
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								Perhaps you should stay in good touch with the out-of-doors for a while to let your system more slowly get used to the chaos of daily life in the city. 
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								And whoever ventured out-of-doors that night was slain by the chiefs. 
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								Do you realize that I devote two hours a day to writing and ten to farming? — my thought-work, my preparation, at night, and when I am out-of-doors ..... 
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								The day the powder works blew up at Pinole, breaking every window in the school, he and she had not joined in the panic rush for out-of-doors. CHAPTER XI 2010 
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								She liked the simple and the out-of-doors, the horses and the hills, the sunlight and the flowers. Chapter XV 2010 
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								But Saxon was angry with herself, for she had been as frightened as the rest in that wild flight for out-of-doors. CHAPTER XIV 2010 
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								No out-of-doors for him that day, he decided, when he had washed the few dishes and put them neatly away; and he wondered how wet Hall was and whether he had succeeded in picking up a deer. 
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								Before thrusting out my head, my senses, automatically active, had told me there was nothing there, that nothing intervened between me and out-of-doors, that the aperture of the window opening was utterly empty. 
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								We were not admitted to this room, and in the store it was as cold as out-of-doors. Chapter 19 2010 
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