A person who has been cast out (of a society, institution, etc.); a person ostracized by his or her friends or social group; an exile, a homeless…

A person or thing selected for removal or exclusion; a reject or outcast; refuse, dregs. Now usually in plural.

That which is cast off or away, esp. as being vile or unworthy; refuse, scum, dregs. Chiefly figurative of persons. Obsolete.

A person cast off or cast out; an outcast, exile; a degraded or downtrodden person.

A reject; an outcast. Obsolete. rare (Scottish in later use).

A person who is rejected.

esp. One cast adrift at sea; a shipwrecked man. Also figurative (from both senses) One cast adrift upon the world, or by society, an outcast.

In extended use. A member of a despised class of any kind; someone or something shunned or avoided; a social outcast.

figurative. A person to be shunned; a reviled or repulsive person; an outcast.

Name of an outcast race or caste in southern France; sometimes, like ‘pariah’ etc., applied to other outcasts.

(a descendant of Ishmael as the Arabs claim to be): figurative = Ishmael, n.

A member of an outcast group in Japan. Also collective and attributive. Cf. Eta, n.3

One who has been expelled, esp. from his own country.

A member of a class of Japanese outcasts. Also collective and attributive.

Proper name of the son of Abraham by Hagar; hence, allusively: An outcast; one ‘whose hand is against every man, and every man's hand against him’…

Someone who is rejected or cast out. Originally: a person rejected as unsuitable for military service. Subsequently more generally: a person…