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castaway

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cast·a·way  (kst-w)
adj.
1. Cast adrift or ashore; shipwrecked.
2. Discarded; thrown away.
n.
1. A shipwrecked person.
2. A rejected or discarded person or thing.

castaway [ˈkɑːstəˌweɪ]
n
1. a person who has been shipwrecked
2. something thrown off or away; castoff
adj (prenominal)
1. (Transport / Nautical Terms) shipwrecked or put adrift
2. thrown away or rejected
vb cast away
(Transport / Nautical Terms) (tr, adverb; often passive) to cause (a ship, person, etc.) to be shipwrecked or abandoned
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.castaway - a person who is rejected (from society or home)
unfortunate, unfortunate person - a person who suffers misfortune
heretic, misbeliever, religious outcast - a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
leper - a pariah who is avoided by others
Harijan, untouchable - belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
2.castaway - a shipwrecked personcastaway - a shipwrecked person                
abandoned person - someone for whom hope has been abandoned
Translations
castaway [ˈkɑːstəweɪ] Nnáufrago/a m/f
castaway [ˈkɑːstəweɪ] nnaufragé(e) m/f
castaway
n (lit, fig)Schiffbrüchige(r) mf
castaway [ˈkæstəweɪ] nnaufrago/a


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I was as much of a stranger as the most hopeless castaway stumbling in the dark upon a hut of natives and finding them in the grip of some situation appertaining to the mentalities, prejudices, and problems of an undiscovered country - of a country of which he had not even had one single clear glimpse before.
Out from the centre of the sea, poor Pip turned his crisp, curling, black head to the sun, another lonely castaway, though the loftiest and the brightest.
The last he wrote was called The Castaway, and the verse with which it ends describes not unfittingly the close of his own life.
 
 
 
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