outcast
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˈaʊtkɑːst/ (noun, adjective); /aʊtˈkɑːst/ (verb)
- (America) IPA: /ˈaʊtkæst/ (noun, adjective); /aʊtˈkæst/ (verb)
From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.
Verboutcast (outcasts, present participle outcasting; simple past and past participle outcast)
- To cast out; to banish. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 16, page 395 ↗:
- And her faire yellow locks behind her flew, / Looſely diſperſt with puff of euery blaſt: / All as a blazing ſtarre doth farre outcaſt / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes diſpredd, / At ſight whereof the people ſtand aghaſt: […]
outcast
- That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. [from 14th c.]
From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.
Nounoutcast (plural outcasts)
- One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper. [from 14th c.]
- (more generally) Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
- (Scotland) A quarrel.
- The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.
- French: paria, proscrit, proscrite
- German: Paria, Unberührbarer, Aussätziger, Außenseiter, Außenseiterin, Ausgestoßener, Ausgestoßene, Ausgestossener (Switzerland), Ausgestossene (Switzerland), Ausgeschlossener, Outcast, Geächteter
- Italian: emarginato, emarginata, reietto, reietta, paria (male or female)
- Portuguese: deslocado, deslocada, excluído, excluída, pária
- Russian: изго́й
- Spanish: apestado, proscrito, paria, marginado, leproso
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