maroon
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person who is stranded (as on an island)
when the tide came in I was a maroon out there
Types & categories
- unfortunate hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
the travellers were marooned
Types & categories
- desert hypernym
Related & opposite
- maroon derivation
Sense 3 adjective
of dark brownish to purplish red
Related & opposite
- chromatic similar to
Sense 4 noun
a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
Types & categories
- purplish red hypernym
Sense 5 verb
leave stranded on a desert island without resources
The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island
Types & categories
- isolate hypernym
Related & opposite
- maroon derivation
Sense 6 noun
an exploding firework used as a warning signal
Types & categories
- firework hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | maroon |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | strand |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | unfortunate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | maroon |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | desert |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | chromatic |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | purplish red |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | maroon |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | isolate |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | firework |