outcast : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: outcast	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for outcast
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outcast adj excluded from a society Synonym(s): friendless, outcast n a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Outcast \Out"cast`\, a. [Cf. Sw. utkasta to cast out.] Cast out; degraded. [bd]Outcast, rejected.[b8] --Longfellow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Outcast \Out"cast`\, n. 1. One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond. The Lord . . . gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. --Ps. cxlvii. 2. 2. A quarrel; a contention. [Scot.] --Jamieson.