castaway
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈkæstəˌweɪ/
:
náufrago
- We picked up a castaway.
- fellow castaway
- other castaways
- castaway on the island
And so when they do, I'm bearded and I look like castaway.
- And so when they do, I'm bearded and I look like castaway.
Examples
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Robinson Crusoe, one of life's castaways.
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Like all castaways, he has conversations with the two sides of himself.
Fiction book (2000) -
I think she was feeling like a castaway out there.
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Without my jet, I was a permanent castaway.
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Well, sometimes castaways have to make difficult decisions.
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There, the shipwrecked party learned from eight other castaways that they would never be allowed to leave.
Academic text (2005) -
The Sea Venture castaways remained stranded in Bermuda for over nine months.
Academic text (2018) -
While the castaways teetered on the edge of starvation, the Aborigines enjoyed what must have seemed a bounty.
Academic text (2008) -
After the storm, the shipwrecked crew members became castaways on a remote island.
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The documentary followed the lives of castaways who had been abandoned by their families.
Synonyms
81
5.1
A person who other people reject and avoid
27
9.0
A person rejected and avoided by other people
3
6.2
A person who others reject or leave out
A person who is excluded from a caste or social group and treated as outside society
A person who is alive after their ship sinks
How Isolated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word castaway comes from two simple parts: cast ('to throw') and away ('out' or 'off'), so it feels like someone who has been 'thrown away'. That's why castaway means a person left behind or stranded, for example after a shipwreck, or someone rejected by their community.