Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations

Click to move up the list of words
oust
ouster
out
out-
out-and-out
out-and-outer
out-box
out-front
out-group
out-Herod
out loud
out-of-body
out-of-bounds
out-of-court
out-of-date
out-of-door
out-of-doors
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

out-group

out-group (plural out-groups)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. group with low status: a group of people excluded from another group with higher status

2. species used for comparison: a species, order, or other group of organisms that is compared with another related group in order to assess whether certain traits in the latter are ancestral or not

Advertisement

© 2009 Microsoft