outcaste

American  

[aut-kast, -kahst] / ˈaʊtˌkæst, -ˌkɑst /

noun

1. (in India) a person who has left or been expelled from their caste.

2. a person of no caste.

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outcaste British  

/ ˈaʊtˌkɑːst /

noun

1. a person who has been expelled from a caste

2. a person having no caste

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verb

1. (tr) to cause (someone) to lose his caste

Etymology

Origin of outcaste

First recorded in 1875–80; out- + caste

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Example Sentences

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outcaste

Under the thatch of each mud-walled hovel of the outcaste village there is the same stir of the returning day.

From Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Alice B. Van Doren

And the younger white outcaste shall point to the queen's footprints.

From Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance by Lady Isabel Burton

Sunday schools, visits to outcaste villages, and lectures on health and cleanliness have their place.

From Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Alice B. Van Doren

A sept of Korku; a man of this sept has the privilege of directing the ceremony for the readmission of an outcaste.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Tell him that though he is lost to his father, to his religion, to the State—though he is an outcaste and an exile, his mother remains his mother still.

From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny

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