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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Marooned definition: abandoned on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers. See examples of MAROONED used in a sentence.
