noun
- a person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc.: Society often regards the artist as an outsider.
- a person unconnected or unacquainted with the matter in question: Not being a parent, I was regarded as an outsider.
- a racehorse, sports team, or other competitor not considered likely to win or succeed.
- a person or thing not within an enclosure, boundary, etc.
noun
- a person or thing excluded from or not a member of a set, group, etc
- a contestant, esp a horse, thought unlikely to win in a race
- Canadian (in the north) a person who does not live in the Arctic regions
n.1800, from outside; figurative sense of “a person isolated from conventional society” is first recorded 1907. The sense of race horses “outside” the favorites is from 1836; hence outside chance (1909).