maroon

1. 1.

   of dark brownish to purplish red

   Synonymsbrownish-red

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of maroon

plural

maroons·

past tense

marooned·

present participle

marooning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about maroon

What does maroon mean?

maroon means "a person who is stranded (as on an island)". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in maroon?

maroon has 2 syllables: ma-roon. The stress falls on "roon". In IPA it is /mɚˈun/.

What is another word for maroon?

Close synonyms include strand, brownish-red. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is maroon a common word?

maroon is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with maroon?

1 word rhymes with maroon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.