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Synonyms for outsider


Grammar : Noun
Spell : out-sahy-der
Phonetic Transcription : ˌaʊtˈsaɪ dər

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Définition of outsider

Origin :
  • 1800, from outside; figurative sense of "a person isolated from conventional society" is first recorded 1907. The sense of race horses "outside" the favorites is from 1836; hence outside chance (1909).
  • noun person who is foreign to something
Example sentences :
  • "Perhaps I am not altogether an outsider, young sir," he replied, calmly.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • After which, as if in despair, the outsider again rattled and jerked the knob.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Mentioning it to Billy might not, indeed, have mattered, since Billy was already an "outsider."
  • Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • It might be difficult for them to explain their presence there to an outsider.
  • Extract from : « The Web of the Golden Spider » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
  • The latter was an outsider, but they had heard great things of her.
  • Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
  • However that might be, it was evident that the brown traveller was a newcomer, an outsider.
  • Extract from : « The House in the Water » by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • "I suppose it is, to an outsider," responded the young actress.
  • Extract from : « Dave Porter At Bear Camp » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • Surely they could not think he had changed sufficiently to make him an outsider, he meditated.
  • Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower
  • She was shown a recognition-knot with the outsider's variation.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 » by Various
  • For the outsider judges a religion as he judges everything else in this world.
  • Extract from : « The Soul of a People » by H. Fielding

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