Each suite has a deck and views to inspire castaway fantasies.
To remove one possible bias-that litter encourages more litter-the researchers inconspicuously picked up each castaway flyer.
He knows the histories of other wrecks and castaway crews, and why they fared better or worse.
Out of a spirit of sincere poverty and humility she never wore any other than some old threadbare castaway habit.
Either way, there's ample opportunity to play castaway.
On film, many a desert-island castaway has put a message in a bottle and cast it out to sea, hoping it would someday reach land.
Embark on a castaway picnic, where you are dropped off by boat at an isolated beach with a luncheon basket and wine.
British Dictionary definitions for castaway
castaway
/ˈkɑːstəˌweɪ/
noun
1.
a person who has been shipwrecked
2.
something thrown off or away; castoff
adjective (prenominal)
3.
shipwrecked or put adrift
4.
thrown away or rejected
verb
5.
(transitive, adverb; often passive) to cause (a ship, person, etc) to be shipwrecked or abandoned
Word Origin and History for castaway
n.
late 15c., "one who is rejected," from the verbal phrase (c.1300, literal and figurative), from cast (v.) + away (adv.). Specific sense "one adrift at sea" is from 1799. The adjective is first recorded 1540s.
castaway in the Bible
Gr. adokimos, (1 Cor. 9:27), one regarded as unworthy (R.V., "rejected"); elsewhere rendered "reprobate" (2 Tim. 3:8, etc.); "rejected" (Heb. 6:8, etc.).