Meanings
- Outside.
It never happens outside of the story-books that a baby so deserted finds home and friends at once.
1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “Waifs of the City’s Slums”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 1881 more example
'Don't think of what's past!' said she. 'I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?'
1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter LVIII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the seventh (Fulfilment), page 260 - Aside from; besides.
A book is a man’s best friend outside of a dog, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
1954, Jim Brewer, Boys' Life, volume 44, number 2, Think and Grin, page 78, column 11 more example
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 115–116
Translations
Esperanto ekster
- eksteroutside
German abgesehen von
- abgesehen vonaside from, besides
Irish diomaite de
- diomaite deaside from, besides
Cite this entry
outside of. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outside%20of
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