Outdoors vs Exterior - What's the difference?
outdoors | exterior |
Not inside a house or under covered structure; unprotected; in the open air.
The environment outside of enclosed structures; the natural environment in the open air.
Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
* Shakespeare
Being from outside a country; foreign.
Outdoors.
The outside part, parts or surface of something.
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Foreign lands.
As nouns the difference between outdoors and exterior
is that outdoors is the environment outside of enclosed structures; the natural environment in the open air while exterior is the outside part, parts or surface of something.As an adverb outdoors
is not inside a house or under covered structure; unprotected; in the open air.As an adjective exterior is
relating to the outside parts or surface of something.outdoors
English
Adverb
(-)- They went outdoors to light up their cigarettes.
Noun
(-)- She loves the outdoors .
Antonyms
* indoorsexterior
English
Alternative forms
* exteriour (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- the exterior part of a sphere
- Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was.
- the exterior relations of a state or kingdom
Antonyms
* interiorSee also
* externalNoun
(en noun)- The sticker was attached to the exterior of the package
- She is our new minister of the exterior