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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
castaway
noun
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▪ Alvin Sharpes had a deep and endless collection and I began to draw from his castaways.
▪ Carwyn seemed like a castaway on a desert island.
▪ Day and night are compressed into an eight hour day, so you see everything our castaway hero can get up to.
▪ Essentially, Hannah was a castaway of life.
▪ Her friends begged her to wear one of their castaways, but the stoic Eleanor refused.
▪ One by one, as the castaways died, their colleagues stacked the corpses in barrels.
▪ Ramsay has likened the situation in many towns to that of a castaway on a tropical island.
▪ She has been rescued by a young castaway named Vicki.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Castaway

Castaway \Cast"a*way\, n.

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

  2. 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.
    --1 Cor. ix. 27.

Castaway

Castaway \Cast"a*way\, a. Of no value; rejected; useless.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
castaway

late 15c., "one who is rejected," from the verbal phrase (c.1300, literal and figurative), from cast (v.) + away (adv.). Specific sense "one adrift at sea" is from 1799. The adjective is first recorded 1540s.

Wiktionary
castaway

a. 1 Cast adrift or ashore; marooned. 2 shipwrecked. n. 1 (context nautical English) A shipwrecked sailor. 2 A discarded person or thing. 3 An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

WordNet
castaway
  1. adj. suffering the misfortune of shipwreck; "shipwrecked sailors"; "castaways marooned on a desert island" [syn: shipwrecked]

  2. cast off as valueless [syn: castaway(a), rejected]

  3. n. a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: outcast, pariah, Ishmael]

  4. a shipwrecked person [syn: shipwreck survivor]

Wikipedia
Castaway (film)

Castaway is a 1986 adventure- drama film starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed, and directed by Nicolas Roeg. It was adapted from its namesake 1984 book by Lucy Irvine, telling of her experiences of staying for a year with writer Gerald Kingsland on the isolated island of Tuin, between New Guinea and Australia.

Castaway

A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore. While the situation usually happens after a shipwreck, some people voluntarily stay behind on a deserted island, either to evade captors or the world in general. A person may also be left ashore as punishment ( marooned).

The provisions and resources available to castaways may allow them to live on the island until other people arrive to take them off the island. However, such rescue missions may never happen if the person is not known to still be alive, if the fact that they are missing is unknown or if the island is not mapped. These scenarios have given rise to the plots of numerous stories in the form of novels and film.

Castaway (disambiguation)

A castaway is a person cast adrift or ashore.

Castaway or Cast Away may also refer to:

Castaway (book)

Castaway is a 1983 autobiographical book by Lucy Irvine about her year on the Australian tropical Torres Strait island of Tuin, having answered a want ad from writer Gerald Kingsland seeking a "wife" for a year in 1982. It was published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. Irvine stated she longed for a “major personal challenge”. She also acknowledged she was taking chances, but as she was neither in a relationship nor had children, she felt it was worth taking. Her book was the basis of the 1986 film Castaway, starring Oliver Reed as Gerald Kingsland and Amanda Donohoe as Irvine.

Castaway (TV series)

Castaway is an Australian children's television series that premiered in Australia on the Seven Network on 12 February 2011. The series is a sequel to the 2008 series Trapped. It was delayed from its initial premiere date in 2010 and as a result first aired on Swedish television, premiering on 1 November 2010 and ending on 6 December 2010.

Castaway (Zac Brown Band song)

"Castaway" is a song recorded by American country music group Zac Brown Band. It was released as the sixth single from the band's fourth studio album, Jekyll + Hyde, on April 25, 2016.

Usage examples of "castaway".

He heard shouts and was dimly aware of Deadeye rushing to help the sailors and castaways over the rail.

Perhaps, after all the document was already several months or several years old, and it was possible in this case, either that the castaway had been enabled to return to his country, or that he had died of misery.

By Fijian custom the lives of all castaways were forfeit, but the pretence to supernatural powers would have saved men full of the religious rites of their Melanesian home, and would have assured them a hearing.

Hating the planet, the crippled ship that had brought him here, and the fins who were his fellow castaways, he drifted into a poignantly satisfying rehearsal of the scathing retorts he should have said to Keepiru.

Our Lord Himself also was meditating terror in the garden of Gethsemane, and Paul both guilt and terror when he imagined himself both an apostate preacher and a castaway soul.

After walking for twenty minutes, the four castaways were suddenly brought to a standstill by the sight of foaming billows close to their feet.

Chapter 11 The Mooncalf Pastures So we two poor terrestrial castaways, lost in that wild-growing moon jungle, crawled in terror before the sounds that had come upon us.

If castaways had landed on the island, they could not have yet quitted the shore, and it was not in the woods that the survivors of the supposed shipwreck should be sought.

The castaways proceeded toward the north of the land on which chance had thrown them, an unknown region, the geographical situation of which they could not even guess.

The castaways, although their strength was nearly exhausted, still marched courageously forward, hoping every moment to meet with a sudden angle which would set them in the first direction.

The castaways could expect nothing but from themselves and from that Providence which never abandons those whose faith is sincere.

The 5th of April, which was Wednesday, was twelve days from the time when the wind threw the castaways on this shore.

The settlers in Lincoln Island were no longer the miserable castaways thrown on the islet.

In fact, the castaways would have been always able to procure fire, in some mode or other, but no human power could supply another grain of corn, if unfortunately this should be lost!

Spilett, do you not think it very extraordinary that, if any castaways have landed on the island, they have not yet shown themselves near Granite House?