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# outsider

«outsider» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who does not belong to a group, or is not…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an outsider, outsiders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An outsider is a person who does not belong to a group, or is not accepted by it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outsider/#m1)

2) An outsider is someone from another place or organisation, not part of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outsider/#m2)

3) (sport, betting) An outsider is a person, team or horse that is not expected to win. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outsider/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and social lessons: feeling like an outsider at a new school. In sport: «The outsider won the race!» In work: bringing in an outsider to look at a problem.

### examples

- On my first day at the new school, I felt like an outsider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outsider/#x1)
- The village did not welcome outsiders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outsider/#x2)
- Our team was the outsider, but we won the cup! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outsider/#x3)
- An outsider can sometimes see the problem more clearly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outsider/#x4)
- The horse was a complete outsider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outsider/#x5)
- Try to include anyone who looks like an outsider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outsider/#x6)

### note

Countable. Opposite: insider. Compare: outcast (pushed out by others), outsider (just not part of the group). In betting maths, an outsider has long odds: a small chance of winning.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «outsider» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outsider/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.