OPEN-AIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does open-air mean? 

• OPEN-AIR (adjective)
  The adjective OPEN-AIR has 1 sense:

1. in the open air

  Familiarity information: OPEN-AIR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPEN-AIR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the open air

Synonyms:

alfresco; open-air

Context example:

an open-air theater

Similar:

out-of-door; outdoor; outside (located, suited for, or taking place in the open air)

 Context examples 

It was a full-page sketch of a landscape roughly tinted in color—the kind of painting which an open-air artist takes as a guide to a future more elaborate effort.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Something there was of Napoleon III., something of Don Quixote, and yet again something which was the essence of the English country gentleman, the keen, alert, open-air lover of dogs and of horses.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beneath him you might have seen the three of us—myself, sunburnt, young, and vigorous after our open-air tramp; Summerlee, solemn but still critical, behind his eternal pipe; Lord John, as keen as a razor-edge, with his supple, alert figure leaning upon his rifle, and his eager eyes fixed eagerly upon the speaker.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)