Meaning

3 senses

  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.

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.

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

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

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

Deverbal from cast away.

Deverbal from cast away.

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
castB2castanetcastecastedcastigate

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