1 a person who is not accepted as a member of a society, group, etc:
Here she felt she would always be an outsider.
2 a person who is not part of a particular organization or profession:
They have decided to hire outsiders for some of the key positions. * To an outsider it may appear to be a glamorous job.
3 a person or an animal taking part in a race or competition that is not expected to win:
The race was won by a 201 outsider. * To everyone's surprise, the post went to a rank outsider (= a complete outsider).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for outsider is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is outsider a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, outsider is tagged as noun.
Does outsider appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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