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# ostracism

«ostracism» in Mova's school dictionary: **not included by a group** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ostracism, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Leaving someone out on purpose, so they are not included by a group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ostracism/#m1)

2) (history) In ancient Athens, a vote to send a powerful citizen away from the city for ten years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ostracism/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In lessons about friendship and bullying, ostracism means deliberately excluding someone, which can hurt as much as words. In history lessons on ancient Greece, Athenians wrote a name on a broken piece of pottery (an ostrakon) to vote someone out.

### examples

- Leaving someone out on purpose is a form of bullying called ostracism. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ostracism/#x1)
- The new girl suffered ostracism because she was different. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ostracism/#x2)
- In Athens, ostracism sent a man away for ten years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ostracism/#x3)
- Voters scratched names on pieces of pottery for an ostracism. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ostracism/#x4)
- Ostracism can make people feel lonely and unwanted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ostracism/#x5)
- Our class talked about how to stop ostracism in the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ostracism/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Verb: ostracise (UK) / ostracize (US). Pronounced «OS-tra-sizm». It comes from the Greek «ostrakon», a broken pot. Not related to «ostrich».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ostracism» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ostracism/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.