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Meaning of maroon

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  maroon
      adj 1: of dark brownish to purplish red [syn: {maroon},
             {brownish-red}]
      n 1: a person who is stranded (as on an island); "when the tide
           came in I was a maroon out there"
      2: a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
      3: an exploding firework used as a warning signal
      v 1: leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the
           travellers were marooned" [syn: {maroon}, {strand}]
      2: leave stranded on a desert island without resources; "The
         mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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