castaway
/ˈkæ.stə.weɪ/
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.”
adjective
- 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.
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