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castaway

UK/ˈkɑːstəweɪ//ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/

castaway adjective: cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

Adjective

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.

Noun

castaway (plural castaways)

  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.

castaway meaning in Hindi

castaway in Hindi

cast adrift
अपवाहित apvāhit

Examples of castaway in a sentence

  • The castaways were bereft of hope.
  • Could that listless-haired, torn-jeansed, slouching castaway among those shining angel-girls really be me?
  • The smoky deluminated lounge was a sunken scatter of driftwood booths and castaway tables.

All 11 example sentences with castaway

Forms of castaway

pluralcastaways

Origin of castaway

Deverbal from cast away.

Words formed from castaway

Questions about castaway

What does castaway mean?
Castaway means cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
What is castaway in Hindi?
Castaway in Hindi is अपवाहित (apvāhit). See Castaway meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is castaway?
Castaway can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce castaway?
Castaway is pronounced /ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/ (US).

Words near castaway in the dictionary

  1. Castanoses
  2. castanoside
  3. castanosides
  4. castanospermine
  5. castasterone
  6. castaway
  7. castaways
  8. castaxanthin
  9. castcest
  10. caste
  11. caste system

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