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# outcast

noun (an outcast, outcasts); adjective (outcast)

«outcast» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

An outcast is a person who is not accepted by other people and is pushed out of a group or society. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcast/#m1)

### In the lessons

In stories and ethics lessons: a character treated as an outcast because they are different; the lesson is often about kindness and inclusion. In the Bible: Jesus spent time with outcasts, such as lepers and tax collectors.

### Examples

- The ugly duckling felt like an outcast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcast/#x1)
- Nobody should be made an outcast at school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcast/#x2)
- Jesus welcomed outcasts and sinners. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcast/#x3)
- After the argument, he felt like an outcast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcast/#x4)
- The story is about an outcast who becomes a hero. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcast/#x5)
- Lepers were once treated as outcasts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcast/#x6)
- Accompanied by his faithful and devoted daughter Antigone, Oedipus quitted Thebes and became a miserable and homeless outcast, begging his bread from place to place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcast/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Stress on OUT. Similar: outsider (but «outsider» is milder and can be chosen). Opposite: insider, member.

## In Jewish tradition

Isaiah tells Moab to shelter Israel's outcasts. Jeremiah promises that God will heal Zion, whom enemies mocked as an outcast.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads these as promises that the scattered people will be gathered home again, and that God cares for those everyone else rejects.

### Examples

- 'Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive. (Prophets ISA.16.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outcast/#x1)
- For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they have called thee an outcast: 'She is Zion, there is none that careth for her.' (Prophets JER.30.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outcast/#x2)
- Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the spoiler.' For the extortion is at an end, spoiling ceaseth, they that trampled down are consumed out of the land; (Prophets ISA.16.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outcast/#x3)

### Note

Countable. Stress on OUT. Similar: outsider (but «outsider» is milder and can be chosen). Opposite: insider, member.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «outcast» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outcast/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«outcast» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/outcast.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «outcast» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outcast/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«outcast» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/outcast.html) on Mova free.