1. Of dark brownish to purplish red
   "The maroon leaves signaled the arrival of autumn";
   - brownish-red

1. A dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red colour
   "The maroon of the leather sofa added warmth to the room"
    
2. An exploding firework used as a warning signal
   "The distressed hikers set off a maroon to alert rescue teams to their location"
    
3. A person who is stranded (as on an island)
   "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there"

1. Leave somewhere without a means of travel
   "the travellers were marooned";
   - strand
    
2. Leave stranded on a desert island without resources
   "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"

Derived forms: marooned, marooning, maroons

See also: chromatic

Type of: abandon, desert, desolate, firework, forsake [literary], insulate, isolate, purplish red, purplish-red, pyrotechnic, unfortunate, unfortunate person

Encyclopedia: Maroon, Queensland