castawaynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɑː.stə.weɪ/us/ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/a person who has escaped from a ship that has sunk, and managed to get to an island or country where there are few or no other people
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Alone
- abandon
- apart
- be in a minority of one idiom
- deserted
- go stag idiom
- herself
- himself
- lone wolf
- lonely
- loner
- lonesome
- minority
- shut
- shut yourself away
- sole
- solely
- solitude
- solo
- stag
- themselves
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Examples from literature
- Evidently, if the castaway had ever been civilized, isolation had made him a savage, a real creature of the woods.
- From time to time the castaways would stop and call, listening for an answering voice from the ocean.
- How could the castaways have supported life in this desolate region for several months?
- The castaways had been thrown, not upon a continent, but upon an island not more than two miles long, and of inconsiderable breadth.
- The ship which thus appeared before the castaways had long "tramped" the ocean, wandering from one port to another as freights offered.