robinson crusoe

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   the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island

   Broaderfictional character

Questions about robinson crusoe

What does robinson crusoe mean?

robinson crusoe means "the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island".

Is robinson crusoe a common word?

robinson crusoe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.