Definitions for castaway

castaway cast·a·way

Spelling: [kast-uh-wey, kahst-]
IPA: /ˈkæst əˌweɪ, ˈkɑst-/

Castaway is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in castaway (aaacstwy).

Definitions for castaway

noun

  1. a shipwrecked person.
  2. anything cast adrift or thrown away.
  3. an outcast.

adjective

  1. cast adrift.
  2. thrown away.

Origin of castaway

First recorded in 1520-30; noun, adj. use of verb phrase cast away

Examples for castaway

She would not even yet be a castaway if it might be possible to save herself!

To be in all respects a castaway,—a woman to whom other women would not speak!

The castaway killed it with an oar; but after that who would have slept?

We could no more leave it, than the castaway sailor could leave his desert island.

And then, to be a castaway, sharing her treasure with another!

They had told her that she was a castaway, and she had half believed it.

"I am no castaway, aunt Charlotte," said Linda, rising to her feet.

If it were true that she was in very fact already a castaway, why should she not go with him?

The saturnalia that succeeded the capture of the castaway had come to a close.

For ever afterwards,—for ever and ever and ever,—she must be a castaway.

Word Value for castaway
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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