out

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   away from home

   they went out last night

2. 2
   adv

   from one's possession

   They gave out money to the poor.

3. 3
   adv

   moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden

   the cat came out from under the bed

4. 4
   adj

   outer or outlying

   the out islands

5. 5
   adj

   no longer fashionable

   that style is out these days

6. 6
   noun

   (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball

   you only get 3 outs per inning

7. 7
   verb

   reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle

   The gay actor was outed last week

8. 8
   verb

   to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality

   This actor outed last year

Etymology

From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”). Cognates Cognate with Scots oot (“out”), Yola out, outh, udh, ut, uth (“out”), North Frisian üt, ütj (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut (“out of”), West Frisian út (“out”), Cimbrian aus, auz (“out, outwards”), Dutch uit (“out”), German, Luxembourgish aus (“out”), Yiddish אויס (oys, “over, finis…