Maroon vs. Brown

Maroonnoun

An escaped negro slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of escaped slaves.

Maroonnoun

A castaway; a person who has been marooned.

Maroonnoun

A dark red, somewhat brownish, color.

Maroonnoun

(nautical) A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (e.g. to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid).

Maroonnoun

An idiot; a fool.

Maroonadjective

Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.

Maroonadjective

Of a maroon color

Maroonverb

To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a deserted island.

Maroonnoun

In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.

Maroonnoun

A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.

Maroonnoun

An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.

Maroonverb

To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.

Maroonadjective

Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon.

Maroonnoun

a person who is stranded (as on an island);

Maroonnoun

a dark purplish red to dark brownish red

Maroonnoun

an exploding firework used as a warning signal

Maroonverb

leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue;

Maroonverb

leave stranded on a desert island without resources;

Maroonadjective

dark brownish to purplish red

Maroonadjective

of a brownish-red colour

Maroonnoun

a member of any of various communities in parts of the Caribbean who were originally descended from escaped slaves. In the 18th century Jamaican Maroons fought two wars against the British, both of which ended with treaties affirming the independence of the Maroons.

Maroonverb

leave (someone) trapped and alone in an inaccessible place, especially an island

Maroon

Maroon (US/UK mə-ROON, Australia mə-ROHN) is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut. is also one of the French translations for .

Brownnoun

A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

Brownnoun

One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.

Brownnoun

(uncountable) Black tar heroin.

Brownnoun

A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.

Brownadjective

Having a brown colour.

Brownadjective

(obsolete) Gloomy.

Brownadjective

(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

Brownverb

(intransitive) To become brown.

Brownverb

To cook something until it becomes brown.

Brownverb

To tan.

Brownverb

(transitive) To make brown or dusky.

Brownverb

(transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.

Brownverb

To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

Brownadjective

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

Brownnoun

A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

Brownverb

To make brown or dusky.

Brownverb

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

Brownverb

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

Brownverb

To become brown.

Brownnoun

an orange of low brightness and saturation

Brownnoun

Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)

Brownnoun

abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)

Brownnoun

a university in Rhode Island

Brownverb

fry in a pan until it changes color;

Brownadjective

of a color similar to that of wood or earth

Brownadjective

of a colour produced by mixing red, yellow, and blue, as of dark wood or rich soil

Brownadjective

(of bread) light brown in colour and typically made with unbleached or unrefined wholemeal flour

Brownadjective

dark-skinned or suntanned

Brownadjective

relating or belonging to a human group characterized as having relatively dark-coloured skin (chiefly used of peoples of ancestry other than European or African)

Brownadjective

another term for coloured (sense 3 of the adjective)

Brownnoun

brown colour or pigment

Brownnoun

brown clothes or material

Brownnoun

a brown thing, in particular the brown ball in snooker.

Brownnoun

a satyrid butterfly, which typically has brown wings with small eyespots.

Brownnoun

another term for coloured (sense 2 of the noun)

Brownverb

make or become brown, typically by cooking

Brown

Brown is a composite color. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is made by combining red, black, and yellow, or red, yellow, and blue.