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castaway

adj
/ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/US/ˈkɑːstəweɪ/UK

Etymology

Deverbal from cast away.

Definitions

  1. Cast adrift or ashore

    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

    Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. 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

      An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

      • These homeless people are society's castaways.

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Derived

Blastaway, Lostaway

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at castaway. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at castaway. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at castaway

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA