maroon

adjective

/məˈruːn/

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dark red-brown in colourTopics Colours and Shapesc2
Word Originadjective late 17th cent. (in the sense ‘chestnut’): from French marron ‘chestnut’, via Italian from medieval Greek maraon. The sense relating to colour dates from the late 18th cent.

maroon

noun

/məˈruːn/

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[uncountable] a dark red-brown colour
[countable] a large firework that shoots into the air and makes a loud noise, used to attract attention, especially at sea

Word Originnoun late 17th cent. (in the sense ‘chestnut’): from French marron ‘chestnut’, via Italian from medieval Greek maraon. The sense relating to colour dates from the late 18th cent.

maroon

verb

/məˈruːn/

[usually passive]

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they maroon	/məˈruːn/ /məˈruːn/
he / she / it maroons	/məˈruːnz/ /məˈruːnz/
past simple marooned	/məˈruːnd/ /məˈruːnd/
past participle marooned	/məˈruːnd/ /məˈruːnd/
-ing form marooning	/məˈruːnɪŋ/ /məˈruːnɪŋ/

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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 waterc2
Word Originverb early 18th cent.: from Maroon (a group of people living in the mountains and forests of Suriname and the West Indies), originally in the form marooned ‘lost in the wilds’.

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