maroon-purple

1. 1.

   of purple tinged with maroon

   Similarchromatic

Questions about maroon-purple

What does maroon-purple mean?

maroon-purple means "of purple tinged with maroon".

How many syllables are in maroon-purple?

maroon-purple has 4 syllables and divides as ma-roon--pur-ple under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is maroon-purple a common word?

maroon-purple is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.