robinsonade

Meaning

Noun

A genre of adventure fiction where a hero is stranded alone on a desert island and has to survive with his own wits.

Origin

Borrowed from German Robinsonade, analyzable in English as Robinson + -ade, , from Daniel Defoe’s 1715 novel Robinson Crusoe.

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