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outcasts

outcasts is the plural of outcast.

Meaning of outcast

Noun

outcast (plural outcasts)

  1. One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.
    • If ever you chance upon the whole truth about any outcast or many, never tell it to just anybody, or at least not right away; unjust exclusion from a society is just one kind of hardship.
  2. (broadly) Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
    • Do you ever feel like an outcast?
      You don't have to fit into the format
      Oh, but it's okay to be different
      'Cause baby, so am I2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle, “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max
    Synonyms:
    outsider
  3. (Scotland) A quarrel.
  4. The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.

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Questions about outcasts

What is outcasts the plural of?
Outcasts is the plural of outcast.

Words near outcasts in the dictionary

  1. outcastes
  2. outcasting
  3. outcastings
  4. outcastish
  5. outcastness
  6. outcasts
  7. outcatch
  8. outcatches
  9. outcatching
  10. outcaught
  11. outcept

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