outcaste

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ caste, modelled after outcast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtkɑːst/ (noun, adjective); /aʊtˈkɑːst/ (verb)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtkæst/ (noun, adjective); /aʊtˈkæst/ (verb)
• Rhymes: -aʊtkɑːst, -ɑːst, -aʊtkæst, -æst
• Homophone: outcast

Noun

outcaste (plural outcastes)

1. An outcast from the caste system.
   • 1991, Gyan Prakash, “Becoming a Bhuinya: Oral Traditions and Contested Domination in Eastern India”, in Douglas Haynes, Gyan Prakash, editors, Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 145:

     […] the essay interprets the oral traditions of the outcaste Bhuinyas who have traditionally worked as the kamias or dependent labourers of maliks or upper-caste landlords in the southern part of Bihar in eastern India. […] But the kamias' ties with the maliks predated the designation of the relationship as bondage in the nineteenth century.

2. In caste-based societies, such as Indian or medieval Japan, an individual or group of people who do not belong to any officially recognized caste.

Synonyms

• Dalit

Translations

one who does not belong to a caste

• Finnish: kastiton
• Icelandic: stéttleysingi m
• Telugu: చండాలుడు (te) (caṇḍāluḍu)

Verb

outcaste (third-person singular simple present outcastes, present participle outcasting or outcasteing, simple past and past participle outcasted)

1. (transitive) To expel from a caste.

Translations

to expel from a caste

• Finnish: erottaa kastista