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castaway - 5 dictionary results

cast⋅a⋅way

[kast-uh-wey, kahst-]
–noun
1. a shipwrecked person.
2. anything cast adrift or thrown away.
3. an outcast.
–adjective
4. cast adrift.
5. thrown away.

Origin:
1520–30; n., adj. use of v. phrase cast away


3. pariah, outlaw, leper.
cast·a·way   (kāst'ə-wā')   
adj.  
  1. Cast adrift or ashore; shipwrecked.
  2. Discarded; thrown away.
n.  
  1. A shipwrecked person.
  2. A rejected or discarded person or thing.

Castaway

Cast"a*way\, n. 1. One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.

2. One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.

Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. --1 Cor. ix. 27.

Castaway

Cast"a*way\, a. Of no value; rejected; useless.
Language Translation for : castaway
Spanish: náufrago,
German: der, *die Schiffbrüchige,
Japanese: 難破した人

Castaway

Gr. adokimos, (1 Cor. 9:27), one regarded as unworthy (R.V., "rejected"); elsewhere rendered "reprobate" (2 Tim. 3:8, etc.); "rejected" (Heb. 6:8, etc.).

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