/ˈaʊtə/, /ˈaʊtɚ/, [ˈaʊɾɚ]
OriginFrom Middle English outre, outer, outter, uttre, from Old English ūtre, ūtera, ūterra (“outer”), equivalent to out + -er. Compare German äußere (“outer”), Danish ydre (“outer”), Swedish yttre (“outer”), Icelandic ytri (“outer”). Piecewise doublet of utter.
- Outside; external.
- Farther from the centre of the inside.
“Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a le”
- comparative, form-ofcomparative form of out (“(more) open about one's sexuality, etc”): more out
“And 'I like to wear a silly hat; I get camper by the hour. I'm Will Young and I'm gay. Did you know I was gay? I hid it for a while. But now I'm out, I'm outer than you would believe'.[…]”
“[…] outer-than-out literary lions like Edmund White and David Ehrenstein would later note, this final proof that the[…]”
“John rightly deplores any sign of an "outer-than-thou❞ smugness in my occasionally critical attitude to his decision not to disclose his sexual identity to his parents. […] Outness, I've come to reali”
- An outer part.
“'Phil Cornish' [a snowdrop variety] is like a cross between a pixie hat and a pagoda, with elegant upswept outers [outer petals] marked in a green colour-wash at the top and warpaint slashes at the lo”
- An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
- The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
- A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
- The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
“We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.”
- Someone who admits to something publicly.
- Someone who outs another.
“From the early 90s, these were some of the fiercest debates raging in the gay press and in gay and straight bars worldwide as blabbermouths blabbed, sometimes just for the sheer hell of it, and gay ce”
- One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
- An ouster; dispossession.
- UKOne who supports leaving the European Union.
“The 51.4 per cent to 48.6 per cent victory of the "outers" broke the back of the Labour government.”
“Meanwhile, outers are disporting themselves on TV in luminous green ties, hand-woven by first years at the Dronefield Academy for the Sartorially Challenged.”
Formsoutermore(comparative, rare) · outermost(superlative) · outmost(superlative) · outers(plural)