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- DictionaryMa·roon/məˈro͞on/
adjective
- 1. of a brownish-crimson color: "ornate maroon and gold wallpaper"
noun
- 1. a brownish-crimson color: "the hat is available in either white or maroon"
- 2. a firework that makes a loud bang, used mainly as a signal or warning. British
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. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Experiencing difficulties.
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.
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.
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. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Experiencing difficulties.
1. To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon. 2. 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.
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.
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.
verb. Simple past tense and past participle of maroon. Wiktionary. Synonyms: isolated. forsaken. deserted. abandoned. left. peered. shipwrecked. Antonyms: maintained. cared. rescued. saved. helped. Marooned Sentence Examples. He meets an old man marooned by the traffic.
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.
To maroon is to strand someone in an isolated place, often a deserted island. Think of "Gilligan's Island," "Survivor," or "Lost" — TV shows that feature folks marooned on islands — and you've got the idea. Maroon can be a noun or verb, depending on how you use it.
