Castaway vs Banished - What's the difference?
castaway | banished | Related terms |
Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
Shipwrecked.
(nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.
A discarded person or thing.
An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
(banish)
(label) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
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#:He was banished from the kingdom.
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#*, Ch.V, Modern Library, 1999, p.640:
#*:Now for Christ's love, said Sir Launcelot, keep it in counsel, and let no man know it in the world, for I am sore ashamed that I have been thus miscarried; for I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England.
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#*:he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world.
#*1796 , (Matthew Lewis), The Monk , Folio Society, 1985, p.190:
#*:Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.
To expel, especially from the mind.
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Castaway is a related term of banished.
As adjectives the difference between castaway and banished
is that castaway is cast adrift or ashore; marooned while banished is .As a noun castaway
is (nautical) a shipwrecked sailor.castaway
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Adjective
(-)- After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
- The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.
Noun
(en noun)- Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway .
- This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.
- These homeless people are society's castaways .
Synonyms
* See alsobanished
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Verb
(head)banish
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Verb
(es)How to cook the perfect nut roast, passage=The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=