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• castaway — n. & adj. n. a shipwrecked person. adj. 1 shipwrecked. 2 cast aside; rejected …   Useful english dictionary

• castaway — A shipwrecked person; a thing thrown away; a person abandoned; an outcast …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• castaway — [kas′tə wā΄] n. 1. a person or thing cast out or off, esp. an outcast 2. a shipwrecked person adj. 1. thrown away; discarded 2. cast adrift or stranded, as by shipwreck …   English World dictionary

• shipwreck survivor — noun a shipwrecked person • Syn: ↑castaway • Hypernyms: ↑abandoned person …   Useful english dictionary

• castaway — /kast euh way , kahst /, n. 1. a shipwrecked person. 2. anything cast adrift or thrown away. 3. an outcast. adj. 4. cast adrift. 5. thrown away. [1520 30; n., adj. use of v. phrase cast away] Syn. 3. pariah, outlaw, leper. * * * …   Universalium

• castaway — cast•a•way [[t]ˈkæst əˌweɪ, ˈkɑst [/t]] n. 1) a shipwrecked person 2) anything cast adrift or thrown away 3) an outcast 4) cast adrift 5) thrown away • Etymology: 1520–30 …   From formal English to slang

• castaway — /ˈkastəweɪ / (say kahstuhway) noun 1. a shipwrecked person, especially one who has escaped the wreck and become stranded in a remote, lonely place, as an island. 2. an outcast. –adjective 3. cast adrift. {derived from phrasal verb cast away. See… …