castaway
noun
a shipwrecked person.
castaways
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pluralof castaway.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Jack Thorne, who co-wrote last year’s prize-winning “Adolescence,” returns with another story of fractured childhood with an admirable, engrossing new adaptation of William Golding’s much-taught novel of boy castaways, “The Lord of the Flies.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Smart castaways might establish startups that end up competing with the big tech companies, a headache a large workforce helps protect against.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
In some cases, people are just set off on their own to a deserted island to cosplay as castaways.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2024
This show, 46 seasons in and still going strong, returns with the host Jeff Probst and 18 castaways who are headed to Fiji to compete and survive.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
Captain Bligh of the celebrated mutinous Bounty and his fellow castaways survived forty-seven days.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
