Meaning

3 senses
  1. A shipwrecked sailor.

    Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.

    Schiffbrüchiger

    потерпе́вший кораблекруше́ниеpoterpévšij korablekrušénije

    a shipwrecked person

  2. A discarded person or thing.

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

    Fallengelassener, Abgewiesener, Weggeworfenes

    вы́брошенныйvýbrošennyj, вы́кинутыйvýkinutyj

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

    These homeless people are society's castaways.

    Ausgestoßener

    па́рияpárija, изгна́нникizgnánnik, изгна́нницаizgnánnica

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Tom is a castaway.

    ruТом изгой. — odexed

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  2. The fishermen saved all the castaways.

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  3. A hundred billion castaways are looking for a home.

  4. I am just a castaway on an island lost at sea.

  5. Haphazard eating habits caused the castaway's food supply to be quickly depleted.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
nautical: shipwrecked sailor:
discarded person or thing:
someone cast out of a group or society:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
nautical: shipwrecked sailor:
discarded person or thing:
someone cast out of a group or society:

Origin

Deverbal from cast away.

Deverbal from cast away.

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Forms

plural: castaways
Singularcastaway
Pluralcastaways

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcast away

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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