Dictionary Entry
maroon
maroon is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses
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- 1noun
In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
- 2transitive verb
To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.
- 3adjective
Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon.
- 4noun
A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.
- 5noun
An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.
- 6noun
an exploding firework used as a warning signal
- 7noun
a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
- 8noun
a person who is stranded (as on an island)
"when the tide came in I was a maroon out there"
- 9verb
leave stranded on a desert island without resources
"The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"
- 10verb
leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
"the travellers were marooned"
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- 11adjective
of dark brownish to purplish red
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