Robinson Crusoe
Speech parts
1. Robinson Crusoe - Noun
2. Robinson Crusoe - Proper noun
Meaning
the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island
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Examples
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.... the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
Quite a few political economists advocate the thesis that a Robinson Crusoe - or what amounts to the same thing, a controlled economy - calculates in terms of profits and losses.
The mind is its own place and in his inner life each of us lives the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another's minds and inoperative upon them.
He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!
It was an epoch in my life, it is an epoch in every child's life, the first reading of Robinson Crusoe.