PARIAH DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found
pariah n 1: a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael] pariah raphia harpia Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) pariah noun Etymology: Tamil paṟaiyan, literally, drummer Date: 1613 1. a member of a low caste of southern India 2. one that is despised or rejected ; outcast Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary pariah (pariahs) If you describe someone as a pariah, you mean that other people dislike them so much that they refuse to associate with them. His landlady had treated him like a dangerous criminal, a pariah. = outcast N-COUNT [disapproval] English Explanatory Dictionary pariah ˈpærɪə n. 1 a social outcast. 2 hist. a member of a low caste or of no caste in S. India. øpariah-dog = PYE-DOG. [Tamil paraiyar pl. of paraiyan hereditary drummer f. parai drum] The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1907) Pariah a Hindu of the lowest class, and of no caste; of the class they are of various grades, but all are outcast, and treated as such. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Pariah \Pa"ri*ah\, n. [From Tamil paraiyan, pl. paraiyar, one of the low caste, fr. parai a large drum, because they beat the drums at certain festivals.] 1. One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste. --Balfour (Cyc. of India). 2. An outcast; one despised by society. Pariah dog (Zo["o]l.), a mongrel race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities. Pariah kite (Zo["o]l.), a species of kite ({Milvus govinda}) which acts as a scavenger in India. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms pariah n. Outcast, wretch, miserable person. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 78 Moby Thesaurus words for "pariah": DP, Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Ishmael, Timon of Athens, alien, anchoress, anchorite, ascetic, bedridden invalid, case, castaway, character, cloistered monk, closet cynic, crackpot, crank, declasse, derelict, desert fathers, desert saints, displaced person, eccentric, eremite, evictee, exile, expatriate, expellee, fanatic, hermit, hermitess, hobo, homebody, invalid, isolationist, kook, leper, lone wolf, loner, marabout, maverick, meshuggenah, natural, nonconformist, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlaw, outsider, persona non grata, pillar saint, pillarist, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, rara avis, recluse, screwball, seclusionist, shut-in, social outcast, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, stay-at-home, stylite, tramp, type, unacceptable person, undesirable, untouchable, zealot |
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