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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The hero of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe of 1719, a shipwrecked English sailor who, by virtue of his own ingenuity, survives for years on a small tropical island.
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- proper noun A fictional
castaway . - proper noun by extension Denotes something isolated and independent
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- noun the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island
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Examples
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Defoe created an imaginary person, whom he called Robinson Crusoe, dressed up Selkirk's facts to suit the purpose of his story, and wrote the wonderful and undying story of Robinson Crusoe.
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I strolled along the boardwalk to a beach called Robinson Crusoe and paused at a villa with harmonica music seeping through a wall of tumbling geraniums; the red-white-and-pink flowers invited a few hungry bees to a sweet morning feast.
Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007
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My plan, as I settled it at last, had been to begin with Robinson Crusoe, which is the earliest really popular novel which we have in our language, and to continue the review so as to include the works of all
An Autobiography 2004
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Its called Robinson Crusoe about a man who gets merooned on a dessert iland.
Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel 1966
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Its called Robinson Crusoe about a man who gets merooned on a dessert iland.
Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel 1966
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With his next poem Browning spoke with a voice that, as our critic says, proved that he had found that he was not Robinson Crusoe, which is to say that he had found that the world contained a great number of people.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Patrick Braybrooke
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This suggested the idea of Robinson Crusoe to Defoe, but he has greatly expanded the story.
The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck
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He turned the leaves over: it was entitled Robinson Crusoe Told to the Children, and appeared to be perfectly genuine.
Mystery Mile Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1930
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He turned the leaves over: it was entitled Robinson Crusoe Told to the Children, and appeared to be perfectly genuine.
Mystery Mile Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1930
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My plan, as I settled it at last, had been to begin with Robinson Crusoe, which is the earliest really popular novel which we have in our language, and to continue the review so as to include the works of all English novelists of reputation, except those who might still be living when my task should be completed.
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1883
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