Castaway

noun

/ˈkæ.stə.weɪ/

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.nounA shipwrecked sailor.

"Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway."

2.nounA discarded person or thing.

"This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash."

3.nounAn outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

"These homeless people are society's castaways."

4.adjectiveCast adrift or ashore; marooned.

"After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat."

5.adjectiveShipwrecked.

"The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island."

6.adjectiveCast out; rejected or excluded from a group.

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