Robinson Crusoe

/ˈrɑbənsən ˌkruˈsoʊ/

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Definitions of Robinson Crusoe

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

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an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)

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