outside

1. (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.Examples: "The first pitch is ... just a bit outside."

2. (chiefly UK) Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.Examples: "the outside lane of the motorway"UK

3. (chiefly US) Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.Examples: "the outside lane of the highway"US

4. (of a person) Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)Examples: "Isaac Nathan's Christian wife served as godmother to his outside son, born after their Christian marriage. She allowed the boy, but not his mother, to live with her, her husband, and their two children."; "An 'outside wife' has limited social recognition and status because her husband typically refuses to declare her publicly as his wife. She also has much less social and politico-jural recognition than an 'inside wife' [...]"; "The legitimacy and inheritance rights of children were questionable, because colonial law did not acknowledge the validity of an outside marriage contracted after a monogamous, Christian one."Antonyms: inside

1. To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.Examples: "It is the prison that supports the image of the criminal […] he's lost when he's outside."colloquial

2. To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.Examples: "Taking off outside in the green."

1. (usually with “of”) Except, apart from.Examples: "Outside of winning the lottery, the only way to succeed is through many years of hard work."usually

1. (transitive) To ostracize or exclude.Examples: "Alison affirms that the kingdom of God does not rely on the sort of “outsiding” that most people find necessary to affirm identity. Keenan, echoing this claim, writes, “While the rest of humanity finds its identity in excluding, Jesus works for a sense of inclusiveness that defines him and, hopefully, us.”"; "While the queer subject is outsided by the norm of reproductive heterosexuality, it feels its material effects and affects, even embodies this outsided-ness; […]"transitive

1. (slang, US, Alaska) The United States excluding Alaska, (especially) the contiguous 48 states south of Canada.Examples: "She's going Outside for Christmas."; "'When did you leave the Outside?' asked a blue-eyed, blonde, shaggy man. (The Outside means anywhere but Alaska—a man who has been long in the country falls into the idea of considering himself in a kind of a prison, and refers to the rest of the world as lying beyond the door of this.)"; "Fairbanks North Star Borough school board candidate Michael Humphrey attempted to import one of the most distasteful elements of the Outside culture wars into Fairbanks on Saturday through his deployment of hate speech targeting transgender children."Synonyms: the lower 48, United StatesUSslang