Meaning

4 senses
  1. One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.

    If ever you chance upon the whole truth about any outcast or many, never tell it to just anybody, or at least not right away; unjust exclusion from a society is just one kind of hardship.

    Paria, Unberührbarer, Aussätziger

    изго́йizgój, изгна́нникizgnánnik, изгна́нницаizgnánnica

    па́ріяpárija, ізго́йizhój

  2. (broadly)Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.

  3. (Scotland)A quarrel.

  4. The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.

More definitions
  • a person who is rejected (from society or home)

Examples

35 sentences
  1. Tom is an outcast.

    Том вигнанець.

    ruТом изгой.

    deTom ist ein Außenseiter.

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  2. I don't want to be an outcast.

    ruЯ не хочу быть изгоем.

    deIch will kein Außenseiter sein.

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  3. Tom said he felt like an outcast.

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  4. Tom and Mary both felt like outcasts.

    ruТом и Мэри оба чувствовали себя изгоями.

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  5. Both Tom and Mary felt like outcasts.

    ruИ Том, и Мэри чувствовали себя изгоями.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper:
Русский
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someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper:

Origin

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

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

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