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

Definitions

1. noun. In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
2. transitive verb. To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.
3. adjective. Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon.
4. noun. A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.
5. noun. An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.
6. noun. an exploding firework used as a warning signal
7. noun. a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
8. noun. a person who is stranded (as on an island)

   "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there"

9. verb. leave stranded on a desert island without resources

   "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"

10. verb. leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue

    "the travellers were marooned"

    Synonyms: strand

11. adjective. of dark brownish to purplish red

Synonyms

strand

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in maroon:

ramoon, romano

Common word forms

maroons, marooned, marooner, marooning

Words from these letters

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