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Meaning of castaway

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

castaway

Pronunciation:/ˈkæ.stə.weɪ/

noun

Definitions

  1. A shipwrecked sailor.

    Example: Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.

  2. A discarded person or thing.

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

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

    Example: These homeless people are society's castaways.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

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

  2. Shipwrecked.

    Example: The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

  3. Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.