castaway:
(plural: ‘castaways‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)
a shipwreck and castaways
a person who saves himself or is saved by somebody else after a shipwreck, usually by swimming to a near-by island or found by a passing boat or ship;
a person who is sent away or thrown away in the middle of the journey on a ship or aeroplane especially for not having proper permit or for doing something wrong on board the plane or ship;
a person who is sent away (rejected) by his/her family or society,
a castaway reaching an island of cannibals
Robinson Crusoe was a castaway who had lived as a savage on a remote Island for many years before he was rescued and brought back to his place.
When he fell into bad company and started to ruin his wealth, health and status, Martin became a black sheep among his family, and so he had to live a life of a castaway for the rest of his life.
There used to be a lot of castaways in the past and once they were thrown away from the ship near an isolated island, most of them died miserable death before any help arrived.
These days it has become a favourite sport activity with the holiday makers to be castaways for a couple of days on an isolated island without food and water and anybody to talk to or take help from.
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