naufrago — meaning in English

English meaning

• castaway noun A person stranded, typically after a shipwreck, often alone on an island.
• maroon adj A dark brownish-red colour.
• waif noun A person, especially a child, who is thin, pale and homeless or uncared for.

Senses

naufrago is used for these senses in English:

• castaway (nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.
• maroon A castaway; a person who has been marooned. [from 19th c.]
• waif A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.

castaway — full definition

1. noun A person stranded, typically after a shipwreck, often alone on an island.
2. adj Shipwrecked or abandoned.

maroon — full definition

1. adj A dark brownish-red colour.
2. verb To strand someone in a remote or isolated place, leaving them unable to get away.
3. noun Historically, an enslaved person who escaped and formed independent communities, especially in the Caribbean and the Americas, or their descendants.

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