Definition of maroon

adjective (a)

• Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon. (adjective)

  source: webster1913

noun (n)

• a person who is stranded (as on an island) (noun.person)

  Example:
  When the tide came in I was a maroon out there.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color (noun.attribute)

  source: wordnet30
• an exploding firework used as a warning signal (noun.artifact)

  source: wordnet30
• In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains. (noun)

  source: webster1913
• A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple. (noun)

  source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

• of dark brownish to purplish red (adj.all)

  Synonym: brownish-red
  

  source: wordnet30

verb (v)

• leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue (verb.possession)

  Synonym: strand
  

  Example:
  The travellers were marooned.
  

  source: wordnet30
• leave stranded on a desert island without resources (verb.change)

  Example:
  The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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