ROBINSON CRUSOE

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• ROBINSON CRUSOE (noun)
  The noun ROBINSON CRUSOE has 1 sense:

1. the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island

  Familiarity information: ROBINSON CRUSOE used as a noun is very rare.

• ROBINSON CRUSOE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

 Context examples 

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

More solitary than Robinson Crusoe, who had nobody to look at him and see that he was solitary, I went into the booking-office, and, by invitation of the clerk on duty, passed behind the counter, and sat down on the scale at which they weighed the luggage.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was a wonderfully fine thing to have that lofty castle to myself, and to feel, when I shut my outer door, like Robinson Crusoe, when he had got into his fortification, and pulled his ladder up after him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We had an adjourned cause in the Consistory that day—about excommunicating a baker who had been objecting in a vestry to a paving-rate—and as the evidence was just twice the length of Robinson Crusoe, according to a calculation I made, it was rather late in the day before we finished.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)