From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe outside worldthe outside worldOUT/OUTSIDEthe rest of the world The city is largely cut off from the outside world. computers linked by modems to the outside world → outside
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the outside world• At the time, the country prevented citizens from having any relations with the outside world.• Many of the prisoners have no contact at all with the outside world.• Since the attack the city has been cut off from the outside world.• Telephone and cable lines link your home office to the outside world.• Hong Kong constitutes a critical economic gateway between the mainland and the outside world.• In essential schizophrenia the characteristic pattern is of withdrawal from the impacts of experience in the outside world.• It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world.• She is not afraid of the outside world, but recognizes its beauty, and therein lies a danger.• Prisoners' confinement and lack of contact with the outside world compound their problems.• Such pets will be fully animated robots, in constant communication with the outside world in order to serve you.• It gives us everything from our connection to the outside world to our artistic and intellectual systems.• What if the outside world was unaware of what was happening at Heymouth?the outside worldthe outside worldOUT/OUTSIDEthe people who live outside a particular place or country – used when the people of that place or country do not often meet other people Prisoners have little contact with the outside world.be cut off from/closed to/isolated from the outside world Parts of the country have been virtually closed to the outside world for 20 years. → worldExamples from the Corpus
the outside world• Hong Kong constitutes a critical economic gateway between the mainland and the outside world.• What if the outside world was unaware of what was happening at Heymouth?• In essential schizophrenia the characteristic pattern is of withdrawal from the impacts of experience in the outside world.• She is not afraid of the outside world, but recognizes its beauty, and therein lies a danger.• It gives us everything from our connection to the outside world to our artistic and intellectual systems.• Such pets will be fully animated robots, in constant communication with the outside world in order to serve you.• It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world.• Prisoners' confinement and lack of contact with the outside world compound their problems. 