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Robinson Crusoe
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What does Robinson Crusoe mean?
proper noun
- A fictional castaway.
- Something isolated and independent.
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I got ‘Robinson Crusoe’ and tried to read, but his life on the island seemed dull compared with ours.
It gave us quite a Robinson Crusoe sort of feeling to be thus secluded from the world.
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I visited Robinson Crusoe Bay in a boat, and with some difficulty landed through the surf near the cave, which I entered.
Whenever he looks my way, he remembers that I have not read Robinson Crusoe since I was a child, and he respectfully pities me.
My aunt sitting on a quantity of luggage, with her two birds before her, and her cat on her knee, like a female Robinson Crusoe, drinking tea.