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Definition of Robinson Crusoe
1. Noun. The hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island.
Definition of Robinson Crusoe
1. Proper noun. A fictional castaway. ¹
2. Proper noun. (by extension) Denotes something isolated and independent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Robinson Crusoe
Literary usage of Robinson Crusoe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"In a Dialogue between Him, Robinson Crusoe, and his Man Friday. With Remarks
Serious and Comical upon the life of Crusoe. Qui vult decipi, decipiatur. ..."
2. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"In his later picaresque romances Defoe is manifestly influenced by THE LIFE ANGE
AND SURPRIZING Le Sage, but Robinson Crusoe can scarcely be traced to ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
""Robinson Crusoe" held me in his golden thrall, and I was expected to go to church.
I hid beneath a bed with "Robinson Crusoe," and was in due course ..."
4. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"Of the fairies and Robinson Crusoe ; There's Payne will play Robinson Crusoe ;
Years ago he did Robinson Crusoe ; My pantomine theme I'll work out with a ..."
5. Daniel Defoe: How to Know Him by William Peterfield Trent (1916)
"Of these eleven volumes, all of fair length, only one, the third part of Robinson
Crusoe, has more or less dropped out of sight; two—the first and second ..."
6. Daniel Defoe: How to Know Him by William Peterfield Trent (1916)
"Of these eleven volumes, all of fair length, only one, the third part of Robinson
Crusoe, has more or less dropped out of sight; two—the first and second ..."
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