outcast adj : excluded from a society [syn: friendless] n : a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: castaway, pariah, Ishmael]

English

Pronunciation

Homophones

• outcaste

Noun

1. One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.

Synonyms

• outsider
• vagrant
• exile
• beggar

Translations

• Czech: vyvrhel, vyděděnec
• Finnish: hylkiö
• French: paria
• Hungarian: száműzött
• Inuktitut: hingitaq
• Russian: неприкасаемый (neprikasájemyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìobarach
• Spanish: proscrito, paria

An Outcast is a person with a social stigma

Outcast may also refer to:

in literature:

• Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 8: The Outcast
• Outcast (novel), a book by Iraqi-Israeli author Shimon Ballas (In Hebrew: V Hu Aher)
• Outcast (magazine), a controversial queer magazine in the United Kingdom
• Outcasts (DC Comics), a mini-series by John Wagner and Cam Kennedy for DC Comics
• Outcasts (Marvel Comics), three unrelated groups of characters from the Marvel Universe
• The Outcast (anthology), the seventh short story collection published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild
• The Outcast (manga), original English-language manga published by Seven Seas Entertainment
• Outcast (Paver), a book by Michelle Paver
• Outcast, the third book in the Warriors: Power of Three series

in music:

• "Outcast", fourth movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells III
• OutKast, a popular and award winning rap music group
• The Outcast Band, English alternative rock band
• Outcast (album) by the thrash metal band Kreator
• Outcast (Ektomorf album) by the Hungarian metal band Ektomorf
• Outcast, song by The Animals
• The Outcasts (band), a punk band from Belfast
• The Outcasts (garage rock band), a 1960s American band

In television:

• The Outcasts (TV series), a short lived Western series aired on ABC in 1968-69
• The Outcast (TNG episode) of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Outcast (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of Stargate Atlantis
• Outcast (Hercules episode), from the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

In other uses:

• Outcast (game), an action-adventure computer game by Infogrames
• Next Fifteen Communications, a San Francisco-based public relations agency
• Outcast Islands, two small islands near Antarctica
• Outcasts, a fictional criminal organization in the space sim game Freelancer

See also

• Pariah
• Untouchable

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