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What is “Castaway”?

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Rebecca

In this sentence, castaway refers to the 2000 film 'Cast Away' starring Tom Hanks, who gets stranded on an uninhabited island. The definition of "castaway" is "a person who has been shipwrecked and stranded in an isolated place" or it can mean "an outcast, a person who has been thrown away, rejected,". An example of using castaway with the meaning of "outcast" would be, "She was a castaway, from the second she was born."

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