- dark brownish-red.
- Chiefly British.
- a loudly exploding firework consisting of a cardboard container filled with gunpowder.
- a similar firework used as a danger or warning signal, as by railway brakemen.
- to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers.
- to place in an isolated and often dangerous position: The rising floodwaters marooned us on top of the house.
- to abandon and leave without aid or resources: Having lost all his money, he was marooned in the strange city.
- any of a group of Black people, descended from fugitive slaves of the 17th and 18th centuries, living in the West Indies and Guiana, especially in mountainous areas.
- a person who is marooned: Robinson Crusoe lived for years as a maroon.
- to leave ashore and abandon, esp on an island
- to isolate without resources
- a descendant of a group of runaway slaves living in the remoter areas of the Caribbean or Guyana
- a person who has been marooned, esp on an island
- a dark red to purplish-red colour
- (as adjective)
- an exploding firework, esp one used as a warning signal
