英语词汇“maroon”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	maroon
释义	maroon maroon¹ /meuh roohn"/, adj. 1. dark brownish-red. 2. Chiefly Brit. a. a loudly exploding firework consisting of a cardboard container filled with gunpowder. b. a similar firework used as a danger or warning signal, as by railway brakemen. [1585-95; < F marron lit., chestnut, MF < Upper It (Tuscan marrone), perh. ult. deriv. of pre-L *marr- stone] maroon² /meuh roohn"/, v.t. 1. to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers. 2. to place in an isolated and often dangerous position: The rising floodwaters marooned us on top of the house. 3. to abandon and leave without aid or resources: Having lost all his money, he was marooned in the strange city. n. 4. (often cap) any of a group of blacks, descended from fugitive slaves of the 17th and 18th centuries, living in the West Indies and Guiana, esp. in mountainous areas. 5. a person who is marooned: Robinson Crusoe lived for years as a maroon. [1660-70; < F mar(r)on, appar. < AmerSp cimarrón wild (see CIMARRON); first used in reference to domestic animals that escaped into the woods, later to fugitive slaves]
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