outcast
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.
Verb
outcast (third-person singular simple present outcasts, present participle outcasting, simple past and past participle outcast)
- To cast out; to banish. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
Adjective
outcast (comparative more outcast, superlative most outcast)
- That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. [from 14th c.]
- Longfellow
- Outcast, rejected.
- Longfellow
Etymology 2
From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.
Noun
outcast (plural outcasts)
Synonyms
- (pariah): outsider, vagrant, exile, beggar
- See also Thesaurus:outcast
Translations
one that has been excluded from a society or system a pariah
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