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Definition of 'Maroon'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) maroon
a dark brownish red color.

2. (adj.) maroon
of the color maroon.

3. (v.t.) maroon
to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast .

4. maroon
to isolate without aid or resources.

5. (n.) maroon
(often cap.) a member of any of a number of black communities in the West Indies and Guiana formed by fugitive slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries.

6. maroon
a person who is marooned.

Etymology: (1660–70; < F mar(r)on, appar. < AmerSp cimarrón wild; first referred to escaped animals, later to fugitive slaves)

Definition of 'Maroon'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) maroon
a person who is stranded (as on an island)
"when the tide came in I was a maroon out there"

2. (noun) maroon
a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color

3. (adj) maroon
an exploding firework used as a warning signal

4. (verb) maroon, brownish-red
of dark brownish to purplish red

5. (verb) maroon, strand
leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
"the travellers were marooned"

6. (verb) maroon
leave stranded on a desert island without resources
"The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"

Definition of 'Maroon'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Maroon
having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon

2. (noun) Maroon
in the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains

3. (noun) Maroon
a brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple

4. (noun) Maroon
an explosive shell. See Marron, 3

5. (verb) Maroon
to put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate

Translation of 'Maroon'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a dark brownish-red colour a deep shade of maroon; (also adjective) a large maroon car.
Afrikaans: maroen	Arabic: لون كَسْتَنائي	Bulgarian: червенокафяв
Brazilian: marrom	Czech: kaštanová hněď; kaštanově	German: das Kastanienbraun; kasta
Danish: rødbrun	Greek: μπορντό	Spanish: granate
Estonian: kastanpruun	Farsi: خرمایی	Finnish: viininpunainen
French: bordeaux	Hebrew: צֶבַע חוּם עַרמוֹנִי	Hindi: गाढा़ भूरा रंग
Croatian: kestenjast	Hungarian: gesztenyebarna	Indonesian: coklat tua kemerahan
Icelandic: dumbrauður, brúnrauður	Italian: (color rosso cupo)	Japanese: くり色 (の)
Korean: 밤색	Lithuanian: kaštoninė spalva	Latvian: sarkanbrūna krāsa
Malay: warna merah manggis	Dutch: kastanjebruin	Norwegian: rødbrun
Polish: kasztanowaty	Persian: خرمایی	Pashto: خرمايى
Portuguese: cor de vinho	Romanian: castaniu	Russian: тёмно-бордовый (цвет)
Slovak: gaštanovohnedá farba; gaš	Slovenian: kostanjeva barva	Serbian: kestenjast
Swedish: rödbrun färg	Thai: สีแดงม่วงเข้มอมน้ำตาล	Turkish: vişne çürüğü renk
Taiwanese: 栗色	Ukrainian: каштановий колір	Urdu: گہرے قرمزی کشمشی رنگ کا
Vietnamese: màu nâu sẫm	Chinese: 栗色
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