how to pronounce castaway

/ˈkɑː.stə.wɛɪ/

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castaway is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of castaway in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… killed by another jealous castaway the …”

meanings of castaway

adjective:

Shipwrecked.
Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.

noun:

An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
A shipwrecked sailor.
A discarded person or thing.

castaway frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word castaway occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.