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Maroon

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Noun

1. maroon

a person who is stranded (as on an island)

Example Sentences:
'when the tide came in I was a maroon out there'

2. maroon

a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color

3. maroon

an exploding firework used as a warning signal

Verb

4. maroon, strand

leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue

Example Sentences:
'the travellers were marooned'

5. maroon

leave stranded on a desert island without resources

Example Sentences:
'The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island'

Adjective

6. brownish-red, maroon

of dark brownish to purplish red

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Maroon

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verb (transitive)
1. 
to leave ashore and abandon, esp on an island
2. 
to isolate without resources
noun
3. 
a descendant of a group of runaway slaves living in the remoter areas of the Caribbean or Guyana
4. US and Canadian informal
a person who has been marooned, esp on an island
noun
1. 
a. 
a dark red to purplish-red colour
b. 
(as adjective)
a maroon carpet
2. 
an exploding firework, esp one used as a warning signal

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Maroon

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noun
1.  [sometimes M-]
in the West Indies and Suriname,
a.  Obsolete
a fugitive black slave
b. 
a descendant of such slaves
2.  Rare
a marooned person
verb transitive
3. 
to put (a person) ashore in some desolate place, as a desert island, and abandon that person there, as pirates or mutineers sometimes did
4. 
to leave abandoned, isolated, or helpless
verb intransitive
5.  US, Obsolete
in the South, to camp out or picnic for several days
noun, adjective
dark brownish red

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Maroon

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tr.v. ma·rooned, ma·roon·ing, ma·roons
1. To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon.
2. To abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape: The travelers were marooned by the blizzard.
n.
1. often Maroon
a. A fugitive black slave in the West Indies in the 1600s and 1700s.
b. A descendant of such a slave.
2. A person who is marooned, as on an island.
n.
A dark reddish brown to dark purplish red.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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