castaway

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/ (US)
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/ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/ (US) · /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/ (UK) · /ˈkæstəweɪ/ (UK)

Definition of castaway

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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

  1. (not-comparable)Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
    “After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.”
  2. (not-comparable)Shipwrecked.
    “The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.”
  3. (not-comparable)Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.

noun

  1. A shipwrecked sailor.
    “Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.”
  2. A discarded person or thing.
    “This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.”
  3. 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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