Exile vs Castaway - What's the difference?
exile | castaway |
The state of being banished from one's home or country.
* Shakespeare
Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
* Shakespeare
To send into exile.
* Tennyson
* Shakespeare
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.
As nouns the difference between exile and castaway
is that exile is the state of being banished from one's home or country while castaway is a shipwrecked sailor.As a verb exile
is to send into exile.As an adjective castaway is
cast adrift or ashore; marooned.exile
English
Noun
(wikipedia exile) (en noun)- Let them be recalled from their exile .
- Thou art an exile , and thou must not stay.
Synonyms
* (the state) banishment * (the person) expatriate, expatDerived terms
* internal exileVerb
(exil)- Exiled from eternal God.
- Calling home our exiled friends abroad.
Synonyms
* banishAnagrams
* ----castaway
English
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 .