ostracize
Meaning
- (British, English, Oxford, US, historical, transitive) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- (British, English, Oxford, US, broadly) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
Opposite of
ignore, fail to notice
Synonyms
Translations
verbannen
verbannen
bannir
εξοστρακίζω
espellerePronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɒstɹəsaɪz/
Etymology
In summary
From Ancient Greek ὀστρακίζω (ostrakízō, “to banish from a city by ostracism”), from ὄστρᾰκον (óstrăkon, “earthenware vessel; fragment of such a vessel, potsherd”) (from the fact that when voting was held to decide whether to banish people, their names were inscribed on potsherds) + -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō, suffix forming verbs)). The English word is cognate with French ostraciser.
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