| Main Entry: | outdoors |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | open air; nature |
Synonyms: |
bucolic surroundings, country, countryside, environment, fresh air, garden, green earth, hill, mountain, open, out-of-doors, patio, without, woods, yard |
Antonyms: |
indoors |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rural area; area away from city |
Synonyms: |
back country, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, countryside, cow country, farmland, farms, forests, green belt, hinterland, middle of nowhere, outback, outdoors, province, sticks, up country, wide open space, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
Antonyms: |
city, metropolis, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | nature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earth, creation |
Synonyms: |
cosmos, country, countryside, environment, forest, generation, landscape, macrocosm, megacosm, natural history, outdoors, scenery, seascape, setting, universe, view, world |
| Main Entry: | outside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exterior; out-of-doors |
Synonyms: |
appearance, covering, facade, face, front, integument, open, open air, outdoors, seeming, sheath, skin, surface, topside, without |
Antonyms: |
center, indoors, inside, interior, middle |
| Main Entry: | without |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | outside |
Synonyms: |
after, beyond, externally, left out, on the outside, out, out-of-doors, outdoors, outwardly, past |
Antonyms: |
inside |
| Main Entry: | al fresco |
| Part of Speech: | adjective/adverb |
| Definition: | out-of-doors |
Synonyms: |
in the open air, open-air, outdoors, outside |
| Main Entry: | open air |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | where air is unconfined |
Synonyms: |
alfresco, great outdoors, open, out-of-doors, outdoors, outside |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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| Main Entry: | nature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
artless, characteristic, consistent with nature, constitutional, created, essential, from nature, genuine, indigenous, ingenuous, intrinsic, legitimate, lifelike, native, normal, ontological, original, real, regular, simple, spontaneous, true, unregenerate
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| Main Entry: | outside |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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Adjectives: |
outside, advenient, al fresco, discoid, ectal, excentric, exterior, external, extimate, extraforaneous, extramundane, extramural, extraregarding, extrinsic, frontal, in the open air, out of doors, outdoor, outer, outermost, outlying, outstanding, outward, round about, skin deep, superficial
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