Full record for off-world adj.

Definition	of or relating to another world; originating from or located in a place outside one's native world or planet
OED requirements	antedating 1950
Earliest cite	Bernard I Kahn, A Pinch of Culture
Comment	Mike Christie submitted a cite from a 1957 reprint of Andre Norton's 1955 "Sargasso of Space". Mike Christie submitted a cite from a 1984 reprint of Andre Norton's 1957 "Star Born". Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1973 reprint of Andre Norton's 1955 "Star Guard". Fred Galvin submitted a 1950 cite from Bernard I. Kahn's "A Pinch of Culture" Added to the OED in March 2004 with an earliest date of 1956
Last modified	16 July, 2009

Citations for off-world adj.

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1943 C. L. Moore Judgment Night in Astounding Science-Fiction Aug. 11/2	The emperor was silent, looking at her from under his brows. After a slightly uncomfortable pause, the girl turned away. ‘I'm leaving,’ she said briefly. ‘Where?’ ‘Off-world.’
1955 ‘A. North’ Sargasso of Space (1958) i. 5	After all it wasn't every boy from a Federation Home who could get an appointment to the Pool and emerge ten years later as an apprentice-Cargo Master ready for ship assignment off world.
1955 A. Norton Star Guard (1973) 49	Nature had provided him with a coat of thick curly hair, close in texture to the wool of a sheep, from which came a pungent, oily odor only apparent to those from off world.
1955 A. Norton Star Guard (1973) 140	There is a space port near the Venturi holdings at Po'ult‥. There is no regular schedule of ships, but off-world traders do come.
1975 M. Z. Bradley Heritage of Hastur iii. 40	The law provides that before you, who are heir to d Domain, undertake any such risky task as going offworld, you must provide an heir to your Domain.
1976 C. Holland Floating Worlds (1977) 203	In any of the rAkellaron want off-world markets arranged, we have to do it through you, don't we?
1982 S. Shwartz Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom in T. Staicar Feminine Eye (1982) vii. 83	Her choice has created more pain for her: honor the oath and kill Haldane; break the oath and flee offworld to escape the vengeance of the Amazons.
1983 M. Z. Bradley Thendara House (1991) iii. 44	Only when I was living offworld.
1991 M. Weiss King's Test i.iii.24	At least the next time I stole it I took it off-world.
1992 H. Collins Mutagenesis 60	Were these women capable of recognizing her offworld accent for what it was?
1993 Locus Oct. iv. 59/1	The offworld Winthrop family finally makes a new expedition to see if Earth is still uninhabitable, as history reports.
1997 B. Hambly Star Wars: Planet of Twilight (1998) 385	He would be back to this world, he knew: to bring back the Guardians, when those who went offworld to form the droch-killing apparatus returned.
2001 Locus June 35/2	Uncovering the Ila's past as an offworld fugitive.
2002 J. E. Czerneda To Trade Stars 77	On my order, the Council stayed away from Acranam's affairs, beyond ordering any Choosers be sent offworld to protect their remaining unChosen.
2002 J. E. Czerneda To Trade Stars 424	Unless Council had moved them offworld already, she thought suddenly, trying to calculate the date.
2003 Dreamwatch Aug. 8/1	The season's 14th and 15th episodes see Fraiser shot and killed while trying to save an SGC member during an off-world fire fight.
2004 P. F. Hamilton Pandora's Star iv. 93	Walking to the top of Herculaneum was another of Far Away's principal tourist attractions. It wasn't difficult, the slopes weren't particularly steep, and the low gravity gave offworld visitors an easy time of it.
2006 J. McDevitt Odyssey xxv. 221	Biologists, delighted with the opportunity to study off-world life, had lined up for assignment, and Cephei III had continued to receive researchers ever since.