castaway : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: castaway	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for castaway
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
castaway n a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael] a shipwrecked person Synonym(s): castaway, shipwreck survivor
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Castaway \Cast"a*way\, a. Of no value; rejected; useless.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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.).