different between highwayman vs pariah
highwayman
English
Etymology
From highway +? man.
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?ha??we?m?n/
Noun
highwayman (plural highwaymen)
- (historical) A person usually mounted on horseback who robbed travelers on public roads.
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
- 1977, Jimmy Webb, Highwayman:
- I was a highwayman / Across the coach roads I did ride / With sword and pistol by my side.
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
Synonyms
- (person who robbed travelers): See also Thesaurus:highwayman
Translations
See also
- highway robbery
- stand and deliver
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pariah
English
Etymology
From Tamil ?????? (pa?aiyar), from ?????? (pa?aiya?, “drummer”), from ??? (pa?ai, “drum”) or from Malayalam ???? (pa?ayar), from ???? (pa?ayan, “drummer”), from ?? (pa?a, “drum”). Parai in Tamil or Para in Malayalam refers to a type of large drum designed to announce the king’s notices to the public. The people who made a living using the parai were called paraiyar; in the caste-based society they were in the lower strata, hence the derisive paraiah and pariah.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???a??/
- Rhymes: -a??
Noun
pariah (plural pariahs)
- A person who is rejected from society or home; an outcast.
- A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.
- Someone in exile.
- A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.
Quotations
- 2014: Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Executive Presence, Prologue
- I didn’t even need to finish the article to understand the damage it would do—which was swift and devastating. In a matter of weeks, Creating a Life was DOA—and, figuratively speaking, so was I. I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah, since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know.
- 1985 — Robert Holmes, The Two Doctors, p 14
- ‘I’m a pariah, outlawed from Time Lord society.’
- 1842 — William Makepeace Thackeray, The Fitz-Boodle Papers (Fitz-Boodle's Confessions, preface [1])
- What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a pariah from genteel society.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:outcast
Derived terms
- pariah dog
- pariah kite
Translations
Anagrams
- Pahari, Pirahã, raphia
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