castaway
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- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
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- Letters
- 8
/ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/
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/ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/ (US) · /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/ (UK) · /ˈkæstəweɪ/ (UK)
Definition of castaway
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
“After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
“After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.”
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(not-comparable)Shipwrecked.
“The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.”
- (not-comparable)Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.
noun
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A shipwrecked sailor.
“Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.”
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A discarded person or thing.
“This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.”
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An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
“These homeless people are society's castaways.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Deverbal from cast away.
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