Maroon - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|məˈruːn|
Brit.
|məˈruːn|
noun
- a person who is stranded (as on an island)
- an exploding firework used as a warning signal
when the tide came in I was a maroon out there
- a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color- an exploding firework used as a warning signal
verb
- leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue (syn: strand)
the travellers were marooned
- leave stranded on a desert island without resourcesThe mutinous sailors were marooned on an island
adjective
- of dark brownish to purplish red
Extra examples
...pets that had been cruelly marooned by their owners at the end of the summer...
We were marooned in this city full of strangers.
The sailors took command of the ship from the cruel captain and marooned him on a desert island.
The car broke down and left us marooned in the middle of nowhere.
The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island
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