Definitions for castaways

castaways cast·a·way

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

Castaways is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in castaways (aaacsstwy).

Definitions for castaways

noun

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

adjective

  1. cast adrift.
  2. thrown away.

Origin of castaways

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

Examples for castaways

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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?

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

Word Value for castaways
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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