Outcast
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈaÊŠtkÉ‘Ëst/ (noun, adjective); IPA: /aÊŠtˈkÉ‘Ëst/ (verb)
- Homophones: outcaste
Full definition of outcast
Verb
- 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
- That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. from 14th c.
- LongfellowOutcast, rejected.
Noun
outcast
(plural outcasts)- One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah. from 14th c.