outcast

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtkɑːst/ (noun, adjective); /aʊtˈkɑːst/ (verb)
• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtkæst/ (noun, adjective); /aʊtˈkæst/ (verb)
• Homophone: outcaste

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)

1. 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 [...].

Adjective

outcast (comparative more outcast, superlative most outcast)

1. That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. [from 14th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote by Longfellow and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Outcast, rejected.

Etymology 2

From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- +‎ cast.

Noun

outcast (plural outcasts)

1. One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: outsider, vagrant, exile, beggar

2. (Scotland) A quarrel.
3. The amount of increase in bulk of grain in malting.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:outcast

Translations

one that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah

• Afrikaans: verstoteling (af)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: pària m or f, marginat (ca) m, marginada (ca) f, proscrit m, proscrita f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 被放逐者 (bèifàngzhúzhě), 被逐出 (bèizhúchū)

• Czech: vyvrhel m, vyděděnec m
• Esperanto: elpelito
• Finnish: hylkiö (fi)
• French: paria (fr) m or f, proscrit (fr) m, proscrite (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Außenseiter (de) m, Außenseiterin (de) f, Ausgestoßener m, Ausgestoßene f, Ausgestossener m (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Ausgestossene f (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κάθαρμα n (kátharma)

• Greenlandic: hingitaq
• Hausa: zā̀rē m
• Hungarian: száműzött (hu)
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• Italian: emarginato (it) m, emarginata (it) f, reietto (it) m, reietta (it) f, paria (it) m (male or female)
• Japanese: のけ者 (nokemono)
• Maori: paruranga
• Navajo: doo yildiní
• Ngarrindjeri: pulpulumi
• Polish: wyrzutek m
• Portuguese: deslocado (pt) m, deslocada f, excluído (pt) m, excluída f, pária (pt) m or f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: изго́й (ru) m (izgój), изгна́нник (ru) m (izgnánnik), изгна́нница (ru) f (izgnánnica), отве́рженный (ru) m (otvéržennyj), отве́рженная (ru) f (otvéržennaja), неприкаса́емый (ru) m (neprikasájemyj), неприкаса́емая (ru) f (neprikasájemaja)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìobarach m
• Spanish: proscrito (es) m, proscrita (es) f, paria (es) m or f, marginado (es) m, marginada (es) f
• Swedish: utstött (sv) c, paria (sv) c
• Tocharian B: caṇḍāle ?
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: crwydriad m, crwydriadiaid m pl

Anagrams

• acts out, cast out, outacts