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- Dictionarymaroon/məˈruːn/
adjective
- 1. of a brownish-red colour: "ornate maroon and gold wallpaper"
noun
- 1. a brownish-red colour: "the hat is available in either white or maroon"
- 2. a firework that makes a loud bang, used as a signal or warning. British
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adjective. uk / məˈruːnd / us / məˈruːnd / Add to word list. left in a place from which you cannot escape: What would you miss most if you found yourself marooned on a desert island? The police are advising motorists marooned by the blizzards to stay in their cars until the rescue services can reach them. Synonym. stranded.
maroon or Maroon : a Black person of the Americas who escaped slavery and formed or joined a free and often secluded settlement or a descendant of such a person. Wherever Africans were enslaved in the world, there were runaways who escaped permanently and lived in free independent settlements.
1. left ashore and abandoned, esp on an island. Ben Gunn, the marooned sailor. 2. isolated without resources. dropping food from helicopters to marooned villagers. He spent twenty-four hours marooned in the cab of his vehicle. families marooned in decaying inner-city areas.
Someone who's marooned is stranded. When a sailor's boat is washed up on the shore of a deserted island after a big storm, both the sailor and the boat are marooned. If a teenager is abandoned at the mall by her friends, you could describe her as marooned.
adjective. us / məˈruːnd / uk / məˈruːnd / Add to word list. left in a place from which you cannot escape: What would you miss most if you found yourself marooned on a desert island? The police are advising motorists marooned by the blizzards to stay in their cars until the rescue services can reach them. Synonym. stranded.
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.
If you say that you are marooned, you mean that you feel alone and helpless and you cannot escape from the place or situation you are in. [...]
/məˈruːn/ [usually passive] Verb Forms. to leave somebody in a place that they cannot escape from, for example an island synonym strand. be marooned (by something) The car was marooned by floods. ‘Lord of the Flies’ is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island. Topics Transport by water c2. Word Origin.
If you say that you are marooned, you mean that you feel alone and helpless and you cannot escape from the place or situation you are in. [...]
adjective. uk / məˈruːn / us / məˈruːn / having a dark reddish-purple colour: He prefers to be seen in uniform, proudly sporting the maroon beret of his old regiment. The flowers are deep maroon. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. maroon.
