Maroon
[muh-roon] /məˈrun/
adjective
1.
dark brownish-red.
2.
Chiefly British.
[muh-roon] /məˈrun/
verb (used with object)
1.
to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers.
2.
to place in an isolated and often dangerous position:
The rising floodwaters marooned us on top of the house.
3.
to abandon and leave without aid or resources:
Having lost all his money, he was marooned in the strange city.
noun
4.
(often initial capital letter) any of a group of blacks, descended from fugitive slaves of the 17th and 18th centuries, living in the West Indies and Guiana, especially in mountainous areas.
5.
a person who is marooned:
Robinson Crusoe lived for years as a maroon.
/məˈruːn/
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 & Canadian, informal) a person who has been marooned, esp on an island
/məˈruːn/
noun
1.
2.
an exploding firework, esp one used as a warning signal
n.
“very dark reddish-brown color,” 1791, from French couleur marron, the color of a marron “chestnut,” the large sweet chestnut of southern Europe (maroon in that sense was used in English from 1590s), from dialect of Lyons, ultimately from a word in a pre-Roman language, perhaps Ligurian; or from Greek maraon “sweet chestnut.”
v.
“put ashore on a desolate island or coast,” 1724 (implied in marooning), earlier “to be lost in the wild” (1690s); from maron (n.) “fugitive black slave in the jungles of W.Indies and Dutch Guyana” (1660s), earlier symeron (1620s), from French marron, said to be a corruption of Spanish cimmaron “wild, untamed,” from Old Spanish cimarra “thicket,” probably from cima “summit, top” (from Latin cyma “sprout”), with a notion of living wild in the mountains. Related: Marooned.
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