castaway: Meaning and Definition of

cast•a•way

Pronunciation: (kast'u-wā", käst'-), [key]
— n.
  1. a shipwrecked person.
  2. anything cast adrift or thrown away.
  3. an outcast.
—adj.
  1. cast adrift.
  2. thrown away.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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