[syn: maroon, brownish-red]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Maroon \Ma*roon"\ (m[.a]*r[=oo]n"), a. [F. marron
chestnut-colored, fr. marron a large French chestnut, It.
marrone; cf. LGr. ma`raon. Cf. Marron.]
Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon.
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Maroon lake, lake prepared from madder, and distinguished
for its transparency and the depth and durability of its
color.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Maroon \Ma*roon"\, n.
1. A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a
scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.
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2. An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Maroon \Ma*roon"\, n. [Written also marroon.] [F. marron,
abbrev. fr. Sp. cimarron wild, unruly, from cima the summit
of a mountain; hence, negro cimarron a runaway negro that
lives in the mountains.]
In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free
negro, living in the mountains.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Maroon \Ma*roon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marooned; p. pr. & vb.
n. Marooning.] [See Maroon a fugitive slave.]
To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and
leave him to his fate.
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Marooning party, a social excursion party that sojourns
several days on the shore or in some retired place; a
prolonged picnic. [Southern U. S.] --Bartlett.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Marron \Mar*ron"\, n. [See Maroon, a.]
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1. A large chestnut. [Obs.] --Holland.
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2. A chestnut color; maroon.
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3. (Pyrotechny & Mil.) A paper or pasteboard box or shell,
wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive,
and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a
cannon. [Written also maroon.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed,
empurpled]
Syn: colourful.
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2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy,
jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque]
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3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn,
reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor,
bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue,
bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful,
blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary,
canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored,
earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green,
dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender,
lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley,
multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored;
ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown,
snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel,
brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color,
straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine;
tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion,
vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish;
yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae
bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress
green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey,
honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta;
maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "maroon":
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, drop out, encamp, evacuate, ferruginous, fiery,
fire-red, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, forsake, glowing,
go back on, gules, hot, incarmined, inflamed, infrared, iron-red,
isolate, jettison, jilt, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, leave,
leave behind, leave flat, lobster-red, lurid, port-wine, puce,
pull out, quit, quit cold, red, red-dyed, red-looking, reddened,
reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, renege, rubicund,
rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red,
ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty,
say goodbye to, scarlet, seclude, stammel, stand down, strand,
take leave of, tent, throw over, tile-red, vacate, vermilion,
vinaceous, warm, wine, wine-colored, wine-red, withdraw