castaway
Other forms: castaways
A castaway is someone who's stranded on shore, often after surviving a shipwreck. A sailor who swims to a small island after a terrible storm can call herself a castaway.
A castaway is more likely to be a character in a book than a real person, although occasionally a survivor has found him or herself washed up on an island. Some theories about what happened to the pilot Amelia Earhart after her disappearance include the idea that she was a castaway on some Pacific island. In the 15th century, a castaway was "one who is rejected." The deserted island survivor meaning came along in the late 1700s.
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a shipwrecked personsynonyms: shipwreck survivortype of:abandoned personsomeone for whom hope has been abandoned
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a person who is rejected (from society or home)types:heretic, misbeliever, religious outcasta person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with official dogma, especially of the Roman Catholic Churchlepera pariah who is avoided by otherstype of:
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Vocabulary lists containing castaway
Stories about vulnerable koalas, clever castaways, and a victorious golfer all contributed words to this list of vocabulary from the week's news.
As a baby, Crow was discovered in a boat adrift at sea and raised on an isolated island off of Cape Cod. When twelve-year-old Crow spots a fire on a nearby island, once the home of a leper colony, she begins to investigate her own past.
In this eighth book of the historical fiction I Survived series, eleven-year-old Ben Kudo is visiting his uncle in the tiny fishing village of Shogahama, when he sees a huge wave coming toward him.