Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“outcasts” is a form of

outcast

UK /ˈaʊtkɑːst/ · US /ˈaʊtkæst/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms outcasts outcasting outcasted

  1. verb (transitive) To cast out; to banish.
  2. adjective That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
  3. noun 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.”
  4. noun (more generally) Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
  5. noun (Scotland) A quarrel.
  6. noun The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.

Synonyms

outsider abject castaway deviant exile fremd leper misfit offscouring overcast pariah reject untouchable Ishmael friendless

Etymology

From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.

From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Cast out; degraded. "Outcast, rejected." Longfellow.
  2. noun One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
  3. noun A quarrel; a contention. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Etymology [Cf. Sw. utkasta to cast out.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “outcast”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “outcast” (best matches first).

All 73 Sanskrit matches →