I am just a castaway on an island lost at sea.
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Castaway
//ˈkæs.tə.weɪ//
Synonyms for "castaway" (86 found)
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10 entriesTranslations
54 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- корабокрушенец noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
- нещо изхвърлено noun (discarded person or thing)
- прокуден noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
Catalan
1 entries- nàufrag noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
Czech
1 entries- trosečník noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
Dutch
2 entries- schipbreukeling noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
- uitgestotene noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
Faroese
1 entries- havreki noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
Finnish
4 entries- haaksirikkoinen noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
- hylkiö noun (discarded person or thing)
- hylkiö noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
- hylkytavara noun (discarded person or thing)
French
2 entries- naufragé adj (cast adrift)
- naufragé noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
German
4 entries- Abgewiesener noun (discarded person or thing)
- Ausgestoßener noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
- Fallengelassener noun (discarded person or thing)
- Schiffbrüchiger noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
Hebrew
1 entries- פסולת noun (discarded person or thing)
Hindi
1 entries- अपवाहित adj (cast adrift)
Hungarian
2 entries- hajótörött noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
- kitaszított noun (discarded person or thing)
Italian
1 entries- naufrago noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
Macedonian
2 entries- бродо́ломец noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
- бродо́ломник noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
Māori
4 entries- rurenga adj (cast adrift)
- paruranga noun (discarded person or thing)
- rurenga noun (discarded person or thing)
- rurenga noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
Polish
4 entries- rozbity adj (cast adrift)
- outsider noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
- outsiderka noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
- rozbitek noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
Portuguese
1 entries- náufrago noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
Romanian
2 entries- naufragiat adj (cast adrift)
- vas naufragiat noun (nautical: shipwrecked sailor)
Russian
4 entries- вы́брошенный noun (discarded person or thing)
- вы́кинутый noun (discarded person or thing)
- изгна́нник noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
- изгна́нница noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
Spanish
4 entries- apestada noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
- apestado noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
- marginada noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
- marginado noun (someone cast out of a group or society)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Tom is a castaway.
Source: tatoeba (1487091)
I was more cut off than a castaway on a raft in the middle of the ocean.
Source: tatoeba (8987826)
After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
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