out

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   Away from the inside of a place or container.

   The cat ran out from under the bed.

2. 2
   adv

   Away from home or one's usual place.

   They went out for dinner last night.

3. 3
   adj

   No longer fashionable or popular.

   Those wide ties are completely out these days.

4. 4
   verb

   To publicly reveal a private fact about someone, especially their sexuality.

   The magazine outed the politician against his wishes.

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Simplified etymology

Out descends from Old English ūt. Its comparative form ūttra, meaning “outer,” became English utter in its older spatial sense and later developed the meaning “extreme” or “complete.” The phrase out of the closet uses out in the sense of emerging from secrecy into disclosure.

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…

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