Outcast

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Outcast \Out"cast`\, a. [Cf. Sw. utkasta to cast out.]
     Cast out; degraded. "Outcast, rejected." --Longfellow.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Outcast \Out"cast`\, n.
     1. One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from
        home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded
        person; a vagabond.
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              The Lord . . . gathereth together the outcasts of
              Israel.                               --Ps. cxlvii.
                                                    2.
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     2. A quarrel; a contention. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  outcast
       adj : excluded from a society [syn: {friendless}]
       n : a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: {castaway},
            {pariah}, {Ishmael}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "outcast":
     DP, Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Ishmael, Jim Crow,
     Timon of Athens, abandoned, alien, anchoress, anchorite, apartheid,
     ascetic, bedridden invalid, cast-off, castaway, chronic poor,
     cloistered monk, closet cynic, color bar, declasse, defenseless,
     depressed class, derelict, desert fathers, desert saints, deserted,
     desolate, disowned, displaced person, division, eremite,
     ethnocentrism, evacuee, evictee, exclusiveness, exile, exiled,
     expatriate, expellee, fatherless, foreigner, forlorn, forsaken,
     friendless, ghetto-dwellers, godforsaken, helpless, hermit,
     hermitess, homebody, homeless, houseless, insularity, insulation,
     invalid, isolation, isolationist, kithless, know-nothingism, leper,
     loner, marabout, motherless, narrowness, out-group,
     outcast of society, outcaste, outcasts, outlaw, outside the gates,
     outside the pale, outsider, pariah, parochialism,
     persona non grata, pillar saint, pillarist, poverty subculture,
     quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, recluse, refugee,
     reject, rejected, seclusion, seclusionist, segregation, separation,
     shut-in, slum-dwellers, snobbishness, social outcast, solitaire,
     solitary, solitudinarian, stateless, stay-at-home, stranger,
     stylite, the disadvantaged, the dispossessed, the poor,
     the powerless, the underprivileged, tightness, unacceptable person,
     undesirable, unestablished, unfriended, unharbored, unhoused,
     unplaced, unsettled, untouchable, xenophobia