castaway
pronunciation
How to pronounce castaway in British English:
UK [ˈkɑ:stəweɪ]
How to pronounce castaway in American English:
US [ˈkæstəweɪ]
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- Noun:
- a person who is rejected (from society or home)
- a shipwrecked person
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- Adjective:
- suffering the misfortune of shipwreck
- cast off as valueless
Word Origin
- castaway (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. Of course , castaway wasn 't all bad .
- 2. Just as castaway can 't see the coast .
- 3. You are a castaway -- be off , or I 'll hurt you seriously !
- 4. She told me that on becoming a castaway we 'd agreed that everything could be filmed : " it 's contractual , " I was informed .
- 5. I guess the project helped me grow up : the person I am today would never do castaway .