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Meanings of outcast in English
Spanish
paria Person with social stigma or untouchability, who is rejected or 'cast out', as from home or society, or in some way excluded, looked down upon, or ignored.
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Usage of outcast in English
1
And in their wealth the beggar and the outcast had due share.
2
The weary outcast was asleep already in her corner of the cab.
3
He had gloried in being an outcast, in suffering for the Cause.
4
I guess that's one way of putting it; a kind of outcast.
5
From that moment they took no further interest in the handsome outcast.
6
From that hour Clarendon Bromfield would be an outcast in the city.
7
Clearly, she had some place of honour in this rough outcast clan.
8
But though the new composite could outcast bamboo, it lacked the feel.
9
Its pages were not all written; its authors were hunted and outcast.
10
With the suddenness of a cat the outcast creature was upon him.
11
Homelessness, that's the direct result of being an outcast your entire life.
12
Man was the outcast race, the more recent enemy of the others.
13
An outcast of the outcasts he must be, was the common conviction.
14
The individual who is to-day a hero may be an outcast to-morrow.
15
He hated the thought of being regarded as an outcast and heathen.
16
He has since remained an outcast from the one-day and Twenty20 sides.
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Outcast across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common