castaway

Meaning of castaway

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.

Information about castaway

  • The plural form of castaway is: castaways.
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Hyphenation of castaway

cast-away

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • castaway is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

castaway synonyms

Meaning outcast:

outcast, pariah, Ishmael

Translation of castaway

Words that rhyme with castaway

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