outdoorsman

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noun

A man who spends time in outdoor pursuits or sports.

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Meanings

nounoutdoorsman (plural outdoorsmen)

plural outdoorsmen

  1. A man who spends time in outdoor pursuits or sports.

    Dalio is an outdoorsman and naturalist of the Hemingway school: he likes to go places and kill things. He fishes in Canada, shoots grouse in Scotland, and hunts big game in Africa, […]

    2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN
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    Whenever the kids ask my wife what to get Ol' Whosis for Christmas, she tells them, "You know how he loves outdoor sports. Why don't you get him something outdoorsy?" […] Let me state here that there should be a law prohibiting any person who uses the term "outdoorsy" from dispensing advice about what kinds of presents to buy an outdoorsman.

    1978 December, Patrick F. McManus, “The Gift”, in Field & Stream, volume LXXXIII, number 8, New York, N.Y.: CBS Publications, →OCLC, page 88

Origin

  1. Englishoutdoors
  2. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  3. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  5. Old Englishmann
  6. Middle Englishman
  7. Englishoutdoorsman

From outdoors + -man.

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Cite this entry
APA

outdoorsman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outdoorsman

MLA

“outdoorsman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outdoorsman. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outdoorsman,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outdoorsman.

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