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Exile vs Castaway - What's the difference?

exile | castaway |

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)
  • The state of being banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let them be recalled from their exile .
  • Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thou art an exile , and thou must not stay.

    Synonyms

    * (the state) banishment * (the person) expatriate, expat

    Derived terms

    * internal exile

    Verb

    (exil)
  • To send into exile.
  • * Tennyson
  • Exiled from eternal God.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

    Synonyms

    * banish

    Anagrams

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    castaway

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
  • After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
  • Shipwrecked.
  • The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.
  • Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway .
  • A discarded person or thing.
  • This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.
  • An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
  • These homeless people are society's castaways .

    Synonyms

    * See also