追放者
解説 Definition
outcasts は outcast（追放者、のけ者）の複数形です。社会や集団から受け入れられない人々を指し、やや強い響きがあります。
Outcasts are people who have been rejected, excluded, or driven away by a social group or community. The term often suggests severe or lasting exclusion rather than simply being new, unusual, or outside a group.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
outcasts は outcast「追放者、のけ者」の規則的な複数形で、語尾に -s を加え、/ˈaʊtkæsts/ と発音する。out「外へ」＋cast「投げる」から「集団の外へ投げ出された人々」という像を持つ。feel like outcasts、social outcasts の形で、単なる outsiders より強い排除を表す。
Outcasts is the regular plural of outcast, formed by adding -s and pronounced /ˈaʊtkæsts/. Break it into out and cast: the original image is of people “cast outside” a community. This makes the strong emotional meaning easier to remember. Typical phrases include social outcasts, treated as outcasts, and feel like outcasts. Compare outsiders, which can neutrally mean people who do not belong to a group; outcasts usually implies that others have actively rejected or excluded them. Use outcast for one person and outcasts for two or more.
例文
The story follows two outcasts who leave the village.
その物語は、村を去る二人の追放者を描いています。
They felt like outcasts at their new school.
彼らは新しい学校でのけ者のように感じていました。
The group gave shelter to outcasts from nearby towns.
その団体は近くの町から来た追放者たちに避難場所を提供しました。
outcasts の類義語・関連語
outcasts の語源・成り立ち Etymology
out-「外へ」+ cast「投げる」から成る英語本来の複合語で、cast は古ノルド語 kasta「投げる」に由来します。『外へ投げ出された人々』という像がそのまま『追放者』の意味になった語で、関連語に castaway、broadcast があります。
Outcasts is the plural of outcast, a compound formed from out and cast. Cast entered English from Old Norse kasta, meaning “to throw.” The image of someone being cast out, or thrown outside a community, developed into the noun for a rejected or expelled person. The final -s is the regular English plural ending and does not change the compound’s core meaning. Castaway and cast out preserve related ideas of separation or abandonment.
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