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/kˈæstəwˌeɪ/ Listen

noun

Castaway n.

One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.

One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. "Lest... when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway."

adjective

Castaway adj. Of no value; rejected; useless.

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Etymology of 'Castaway'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Castaway" Quotes from Famous Books

... engaged in scouring that expanse of water, searching eagerly for a sign of the castaway balloonists. Frank even had his marine glasses leveled, and, first of all, scanned the horizon, hoping that possibly the air craft might have been able to keep afloat thus far through strenuous methods known to such a veteran sky pilot as ...

— The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf • Captain Quincy Allen

... spacious and lighted by a narrow, weed-choked crevice high up that admitted a soft, greeny glow very pleasing after the glare of the sun; by which light I perceived that from this cave two smaller caves opened. Now seeing this place had once been the abode of some poor castaway, I sought high and low in hopes of finding something to our use if no more than a broken cup, but came on nothing save the ruin of a small table; the place was bare as my hand. I was yet busied in my fruitless search when comes my companion all ...

— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol

... office, and Estelle answered it. Arthur was on the wire. A signal was being hung out for all the castaway to return to the building from their several occupations. They were about to ...

— The Runaway Skyscraper • Murray Leinster

... weep away! Make me yet more wretched by thy grief. Is it not misery enough that my only daughter is a castaway? ...

— Egmont - A Tragedy In Five Acts • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... from the catechism class the year before on account of her bad conduct. And if the cure did not make a similar objection this year it was because he feared she would never come again and that his refusal would launch on the Parisian pave another castaway. ...

— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

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