Definition/Meaning of outside

• English - Noun: outside ( plural outsides ) The part of something that faces out; the outer surface . 1653 , Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais, Gargantua , "The Author's Prologue to the First Book" Silenes of old were little boxes , like those we now may see in the shops of apothecaries , painted on the outside with wanton toyish figures , as harpies , satyrs , bridled geese , horned hares ,…
• English - Adjective: outside ( comparative more outside , superlative most outside ) Of or pertaining to the outer surface , limit or boundary . The outside surface looks good . 1901 , Miles Franklin , My Brilliant Career , Household drudgery , woodcutting , milking , and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish . 1921 , Ernest Leopold Ahrons, Steam Locomotive Construction and Maintenance , The…
• English - Adverb: outside ( comparative more outside , superlative most outside ) (Can we clean up (+) this sense?) On or towards the outside . 1906 , Upton Sinclair , The Jungle , Chapter 28 Jurgis waited outside and walked home with Marija . Outdoors . I slept outside last night . Translations
• English - Preposition: outside (Can we clean up (+) this sense?) On the outside of . 1890 , Jacob Riis , How the Other Half Lives , It never happens outside of the story-books that a baby so deserted finds home and friends at once . 1891 , Thomas Hardy , Tess of the d'Urbervilles , "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?"…
• English - Alternative forms: owtside ( obsolete )