Definition of "castaway" in English

adjective

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.

noun

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.