castaway

See also: cast away

English

Etymology

Deverbal from cast away.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: kăsʹtəwā IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/, /ˈkæstəweɪ/

Adjective

castaway (not comparable)

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.

Translations

cast adrift

• French: naufragé (fr) m
• Hindi: अपवाहित (hi) (apvāhit)
• Romanian: naufragiat (ro) m

Noun

castaway (plural castaways)

1. (nautical) 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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:outcast

Related terms

• cast away

Translations

nautical: shipwrecked sailor

• Bulgarian: корабокрушенец m (korabokrušenec)
• Catalan: nàufrag (ca) m
• Czech: trosečník (cs) m
• Dutch: schipbreukeling (nl) m
• Faroese: havreki m
• Finnish: haaksirikkoinen
• French: naufragé (fr)
• German: Schiffbrüchiger (de) m
• Hungarian: hajótörött (hu)
• Italian: naufrago (it)
• Macedonian: бродо́ломник m (brodólomnik), бродо́ломец m (brodólomec)
• Polish: rozbitek (pl) m
• Portuguese: náufrago (pt)
• Romanian: vas naufragiat
• Russian: потерпе́вший кораблекруше́ние m (poterpévšij korablekrušénije)
• Spanish: náufrago (es)

discarded person or thing

• Bulgarian: нещо изхвърлено (nešto izhvǎrleno)
• Finnish: hylkytavara (fi) (thing); hylkiö (fi) (person)
• German: Fallengelassener m, Abgewiesener m (person), Weggeworfenes n, weggeworfener Gegenstand m, Wegwurf m (thing)
• Hebrew: פסולת (he)
• Hungarian: kitaszított (hu)
• Maori: rurenga, paruranga
• Russian: вы́брошенный (ru) m (výbrošennyj), вы́кинутый (ru) m (výkinutyj)

someone cast out of a group or society

• Bulgarian: прокуден (bg) (prokuden)
• Dutch: uitgestotene (nl) m or f
• Finnish: hylkiö (fi)
• German: Ausgestoßener m
• Maori: rurenga
• Polish: wyrzutek (pl)
• Russian: па́рия (ru) m or f (párija), изгна́нник (ru) m (izgnánnik), изгна́нница (ru) f (izgnánnica), изго́й (ru) m (izgój), отве́рженный (ru) m (otvéržennyj)
• Spanish: apestado (es) m, apestada (es) f, marginado (es) m, marginada (es) f