external

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun outward features
adjective happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface
adjective coming from the outside

From Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin externus (“outward, external”), from exter/exterus (“on the outside, outward”).

External Characters.--General condition well nourished--healthy. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
Externals were all in his favour. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
Fontesvilla has not the externals of a charnel-house. — Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

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