Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun outer_space

1 sense of outer space

Sense 1
outer space, space -- (any location outside the Earth's atmosphere; "the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether"; "the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth")
       => space, infinite -- (the unlimited expanse in which everything is located; "they tested his ability to locate objects in space"; "the boundless regions of the infinite")
       => location -- (a point or extent in space)