Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who lives outside of a place, or in another place.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun engraving One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere.

Etymologies

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out- +‎ dweller

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Examples

  • But I am an outdweller -- of the wilderness -- and I know the ways of it.

    The Tall Man 1907

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