castaway

Deverbal from cast away.

• (US) enPR: kăsʹtəwā IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/, /ˈkæstəweɪ/

castaway (not comparable)

1. Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

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

2. Shipwrecked.

   The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

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

castaway (plural castaways)

1. (nautical) 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.

• See also Thesaurus:outcast

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