shipwreck survivor

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   a shipwrecked person

   Synonymscastaway

   Broaderabandoned person

Questions about shipwreck survivor

What does shipwreck survivor mean?

shipwreck survivor means "a shipwrecked person".

What is another word for shipwreck survivor?

Close synonyms include castaway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shipwreck survivor a common word?

shipwreck survivor 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.