Crusoe

[kroo-soh]

noun

1. Robinson. Robinson Crusoe.

Crusoe

/ -zəʊ, ˈkruːsəʊ /

noun

1. See Robinson Crusoe

Example Sentences

On the way to Othello they could hop on poor Robinson Crusoe for not saying ‘Mr. Friday’ on the island.”

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“Would you care to check out a book before you go? Robinson Crusoe, perhaps?” the librarian called after her.

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She waited until the Incorrigibles were gathered ’round attentively, took out her book, turned to the first page, and began: “The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates.”

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That is to say, we are meant to believe that Robinson Crusoe himself wrote the book.”

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“The book is fiction; that is to say, a made-up story written by Mr. Defoe, but he wants us to imagine it as a true account, as if it were written down by Robinson Crusoe himself. Who was actually a character made up by Mr. Defoe.”

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