Noun

1. Region outside explored space.
2. Any region of space beyond limits determined with reference to boundaries of a celestial system or body, especially the region of space immediately beyond Earth's atmosphere
3. (colour) A slightly lighter black color

Quotations

• 1842 - Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, The Maiden of Moscow (1842).

  The World--that rocks--and heaves--and beams!--

  A Stormy Sun, itself it gleams!--

  Keeps this, indeed, its place of old?--

  All seems down steep Destruction rolled!

  All Earth in madness moved,--o'erthrown,

  To outer space--driven--racked--undone!

• 1849 - Thomas Buchanan Read, Lays and ballads (1849).

  DEATH.

  What they who find me make me---Shall we go?

  OLD MAN.

  Whither?

  DEATH.

  Upward---and onward, into outer space,

  Where she, thy kindred spirit, waiteth thee.