maroon

Meanings

• a person who is stranded (as on an island)
  • "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there"
• a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
• an exploding firework used as a warning signal
• leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
  • "the travellers were marooned"
• leave stranded on a desert island without resources
  • "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"
• of dark brownish to purplish red

Synonyms

brownish-red, strand