Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Dalit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put (a person) out of his caste; cause to lose caste.
- noun In India, one who has suffered expulsion from caste.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun In
Indian society, someone who does not belong to acaste . - verb transitive To
expel from acaste .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society
- noun a person belonging to no caste
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Examples
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So did the use of the clever term "outcaste" to mean someone who has been cast out of his or her caste.
Review of Clockwork Heart by Dru Pagliassotti Tia Nevitt 2008
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So did the use of the clever term "outcaste" to mean someone who has been cast out of his or her caste.
Archive 2008-05-01 Tia Nevitt 2008
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But the untouchables rejected this, they still called themselves, Dalit, a term meaning 'outcaste', 'crushed', 'broken to pieces'.
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But the untouchables rejected this, they still called themselves, Dalit, a term meaning 'outcaste', 'crushed', 'broken to pieces'.
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But does that really matter if people continue to be outcaste, even after conversion to other religions?
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Caste, Hindusim And Human Rights Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010
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But does that really matter if people continue to be outcaste, even after conversion to other religions?
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Caste, Hindusim And Human Rights Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010
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But does that really matter if people continue to be outcaste, even after conversion to other religions?
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Caste, Hinduism and Human Rights Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010
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But does that really matter if people continue to be outcaste, even after conversion to other religions?
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Caste, Hindusim And Human Rights Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010
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But does that really matter if people continue to be outcaste, even after conversion to other religions?
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Caste, Hinduism and Human Rights Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010
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But does that really matter if people continue to be outcaste, even after conversion to other religions?
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Caste, Hindusim And Human Rights Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2010
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