noun
Meaning 1
A region outside of explored space.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
outer space
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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noun
Meaning 2
Any region of space beyond limits determined with reference to boundaries of a celestial system or body, especially the region of space immediately beyond Earth's atmosphere; sometimes, space beyond Earth's solar system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- Astronauts train for years before traveling to outer space.
- The telescope captured incredible images from outer space.
- Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations in the depths of outer space.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: final frontier, high frontier, last frontier
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A bluish shade of black.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether
- the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: space
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: location, space, infinite
History
Etymology
From outer + space.
Across languages
Translations
96 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: فَضَاء خَارِجِيّ (faḍāʔ ḵārijiyy) — region
- Armenian: տիեզերական տարածություն (tiezerakan taracutʻyun) — region
- Azerbaijani: kosmik fəza — region
- Azerbaijani: kosmos — region
- Bashkir: йыһан (yıhan) — region
- Belarusian: касмі́чная прасто́ра (kasmíčnaja prastóra) — region
- Belarusian: касьмі́чная прасто́ра (kasʹmíčnaja prastóra) — region
- Belarusian: ко́смас (kósmas) — region
- Bulgarian: косми́ческо простра́нство (kosmíčesko prostránstvo) — region
- Bulgarian: ко́смос (kósmos) — region
- Burmese: အာကာသ (akasa.) — region
- Catalan: espai exterior — region
- Chinese Mandarin: 太空 (tàikōng) — region
- Chinese Mandarin: 宇宙空間 /宇宙空间 (yǔzhòu kōngjiān) — region
- Chinese Mandarin: 外層空間 /外层空间 (wàicéng kōngjiān) — region
- Czech: kosmický prostor — region
- Danish: ydre rum — region
- Dutch: ruimte — region
- Estonian: maailmaruum — region
- Finnish: ulkoavaruus — region
- French: espace extra-atmosphérique — region
- French: espace extérieur — region
- Georgian: კოსმოსი (ḳosmosi) — region
- Georgian: ღია კოსმოსი (ɣia ḳosmosi) — region
- German: Weltraum — region
- German: All — region
- German: Weltall — region
- Greek: διάστημα (diástima) — region
- Gujarati: અંતરિક્ષ (antarikṣ) — region
- Hebrew: חָלָל חִיצוֹן (khalál khitsón) — region
- Hindi: अंतरिक्ष (antrikṣ) — region
- Hungarian: világűr — region
- Icelandic: útgeimur — region
- Italian: spazio cosmico — region
- Italian: cosmo — region
- Italian: spazio esterno — region
- Japanese: 宇宙 (uchū) — region
- Japanese: 宇宙空間 (uchūkūkan) — region
- Kazakh: ғарыш (ğaryş) — region
- Khmer: អវកាស (ʼaʼvĕəʼkaah) — region
- Korean: 우주 (uju) — region
- Korean: 우주 공간 (uju gonggan) — region
- Kyrgyz: космос (kosmos) — region
- Lao: ອະວະກາດ (ʼa wa kāt) — region
- Latvian: kosmiskā telpa — region
- Lithuanian: kosminė erdvė — region
- Macedonian: вселенски простор (vselenski prostor) — region
- Malay: angkasa lepas — region
- Māori: tuarangi — region
- Navajo: yágháhonikáán — region
- Navajo: yágháhookáán — region
- Navajo: yáhoníkáán — region
- Norwegian Bokmål: verdensrom — region
- Norwegian Bokmål: ytre rom — region
- Pashto: بهرنى تشيال (baharanay tǝšyāl) — region
- Iranian Persian: فَضا (fazâ) — region
- Iranian Persian: اِسْپاش (espâš) — region
- Iranian Persian: فَضایِ بیرونی (fazâ-ye biruni) — region
- Iranian Persian: فَضایِ کِیْهان (fazâ-ye keyhân) — region
- Polish: kosmos — region
- Polish: przestrzeń kosmiczna — region
- Portuguese: espaço sideral — region
- Romanian: spațiu cosmic — region
- Romanian: spațiu interplanetar — region
- Romanian: cosmos — region
- Russian: ко́смос (kósmos) — region
- Russian: откры́тый ко́смос (otkrýtyj kósmos) — region
- Russian: косми́ческое простра́нство (kosmíčeskoje prostránstvo) — region
- Serbo-Croatian: све̏мӣр — region
- Serbo-Croatian: васио́на — region
- Serbo-Croatian: васељена — region
- Serbo-Croatian: космос — region
- Serbo-Croatian: svȅmīr — region
- Serbo-Croatian: vasióna — region
- Serbo-Croatian: vaseljena — region
- Serbo-Croatian: kosmos — region
- Slovak: kozmický priestor — region
- Slovene: vesoljski prostor — region
- Spanish: espacio exterior — region
- Spanish: espacio cósmico — region
- Swahili: anga za juu — region
- Swedish: yttre rymden — region
- Tajik: фазо (fazo) — region
- Tajik: фазои берунӣ (fazo-yi beruni) — region
- Tajik: фазои кайҳон (fazo-yi kayhon) — region
- Tamil: விண்வெளி (viṇveḷi) — region
- Tatar: галәми фәза (ğälämi fäza) — region
- Tatar: фәза (fäza) — region
- Thai: อวกาศ (à-wá-gàat) — region
- Turkish: dış uzay — region
- Ukrainian: космі́чний про́стір (kosmíčnyj próstir) — region
- Ukrainian: ко́смос (kósmos) — region
- Urdu: فَضائے بَسِیط (fazāe basīt) — region
- Uzbek: fazo — region
- Uzbek: kosmos — region
- Vietnamese: vũ trụ — region