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English
Etymology
From out- + caste, modelled after outcast.
Pronunciation
Noun
outcaste (plural outcastes)
- 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.
- 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
Translations
one who does not belong to a caste
Verb
outcaste (third-person singular simple present outcastes, present participle outcasting or outcasteing, simple past and past participle outcasted)
- (transitive) To expel from a caste.
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