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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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
The coastguard said a French Navy Dauphin helicopter was monitoring the area where the boat sank "to confirm the successful recovery of all the castaways".
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
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
Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
