outdoors

«outdoors» in Mova's school dictionary: outside, not in a building — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb (outdoors); noun (the outdoors); adjective (outdoor)

meaning for a pupil

1) Outdoors means outside, not in a building. tree →

2) The outdoors is the natural world away from buildings: fields, woods, mountains, beaches. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children play outdoors at break and after school. In safety lessons for the outdoors, they learn about sunscreen and hats, water, weather, getting lost and telling an adult where they are going. Phrases: play outdoors, the great outdoors, outdoor activities, go outdoors.

examples

• Let's play outdoors while it's sunny. tree →
• We ate our lunch outdoors on the grass. tree →
• He loves the great outdoors and goes camping a lot. tree →
• Wear sunscreen when you are outdoors in summer. tree →
• It's too cold to go outdoors today. tree →
• Outdoor games are good exercise. tree →
• Cats that live outdoors need shelter from rain. tree →
• Our class had a lesson outdoors under a tree. tree →

note

«Outdoors» (with s) is an adverb or noun: «play outdoors». «Outdoor» (no s) goes before a noun: «an outdoor pool». Opposite: indoors / indoor. «Outside» often means the same.

In the corpora

• After supper there is a heavy knock: Badger, muddy and rough from nights outdoors.
• "The dunny" is Australian slang for the toilet, often one outdoors.
• Playing outdoors in daylight helps protect children's eyes from becoming short-sighted (seeing far-away things blurry).
• Children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to become short-sighted.
• Lightning kills people every year, most of them outdoors near water, on high ground or under tall trees.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «outdoors» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.