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out·cast

(out′kăst′)

One that has been excluded from a society or system.

out′cast′ adj.

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outcast

(ˈaʊtˌkɑːst)

1. a person who is rejected or excluded from a social group

2. a vagabond or wanderer

3. anything thrown out or rejected

adj

rejected, abandoned, or discarded; cast out

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out•cast

(ˈaʊtˌkæst, -ˌkɑst)

n.

1. a person who is rejected or cast out, as from home or society.

2. a homeless wanderer; vagabond.

adj.

3. cast out, as from one's home or society.

[1250–1300]

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Noun	1.	outcast - a person who is rejected (from society or home) castaway, pariah, Ishmael unfortunate, unfortunate person - a person who suffers misfortune heretic, misbeliever, religious outcast - a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church leper - a pariah who is avoided by others Harijan, untouchable - belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
Adj.	1.	outcast - excluded from a society friendless unwanted - not wanted; not needed; "tried to give away unwanted kittens"

outcast

noun pariah, exile, outlaw, undesirable, untouchable, leper, vagabond, wretch, persona non grata (Latin) He had always been an outcast, unwanted and alone.

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Translations

مَنْبوذ

udskud

Ausgestoßene

pari paria

kiközösített

útskúfaîur maîur

reietto

atstumtasispaniekintasis

izstumtais

utstøtt

dışlanmış kişi

被排斥者被驱逐者

outcast

[ˈaʊtkɑːst] N (= rejected person) → paria mf; (in exile) → desterrado/a m/f
he's a social outcast → vive marginado por la sociedad

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

outcast

[ˈaʊtkɑːst] n (from society) → paria m
They are treated as outcasts → Ils sont traités comme des parias.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

outcast

n → Ausgestoßene(r) mf; social outcast → Außenseiter(in) m(f) → der Gesellschaft; he was treated as an outcast → er wurde zum Außenseiter gestempelt; one of the party’s outcasts → einer, den die Partei verstoßen hat

adj → ausgestoßen, verstoßen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

outcast

[ˈaʊtˌkɑːst] n → reietto/a; (socially) → emarginato/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

outcast

(ˈautkaːst) noun

a person who has been driven away from friends etc. an outcast from society.

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"Among my good friends the outcasts. A little more or a little less and I should have been hanged.

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Conceived in the same mood which produced "Almayer's Folly" and "An Outcast of the Islands," it is told in the same breath (with what was left of it, that is, after the end of "An Outcast"), seen with the same vision, rendered in the same method--if such a thing as method did exist then in my conscious relation to this new adventure of writing for print.

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Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners be outcast men,

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I gather the larkspur Over the hillside, Blown mid the chaos Of boulder and bellbine; Hating the tyrant Who made me an outcast, Who of his leisure Now spares me no moment: Drinking the mountain spring, Shading at noon-day Under the cypress My limbs from the sun glare.

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I-- I have brought you to this pass, for I have become an outcast, my darling.

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He found himself an outcast in the midst of the populous camp.

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I write it with the tears in my eyes -- you shall not link your fate to an outcast. Accept these heart-broken lines as releasing you from your promise.

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The outcast seized on the bread and meat with lean, long-nailed hands that looked like claws.

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Aye, for the game of creating, my brethren, there is needed a holy Yea unto life: ITS OWN will, willeth now the spirit; HIS OWN world winneth the world's outcast.

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Knowing what this poor fallen man had once been, her whole soul was moved by the shuddering terror with which he had appealed to her -- the outcast woman -- for support against his instinctively discovered enemy.

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He was an outcast. The hand of every white man was against him.

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He was ruined past hope now; his destruction would be immediate and sure, and he would be an outcast and friendless.