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maroon

English

  1. 🔊 of dark brownish to purplish red
  2. 🔊 an exploding firework used as a warning signal
  3. 🔊 a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
  4. 🔊 a person who is stranded (as on an island)
    “when the tide came in I was a maroon out there”
  5. 🔊 leave stranded on a desert island without resources
    “The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island”
  6. 🔊 leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
    “the travellers were marooned”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 bordó maroon

Similar words

strand brownish-red titian titian-red abandon back out beg off bivouac bricky cardinal carmine carnation carnelian cast away cerise cherry cherry-colored cherry-red crimson cry off damask depart from desert discard