How to pronounce“Maroon”in English
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Definitions of “Maroon”
An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
“Further north a Maroon community in the Bahoruco Mountains thrived for eighty-five years, until the French proposed a truce under the terms of which the Maroons would be permitted to form an independent clan.”
Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.
“In her discussion of Michelle Cliff's Abeng, a novel that historicizes maroon culture and the Jamaican warrior heroine Nanny of the Maroons, Francoise Lionnet examines linguistic “metissage” […]”
To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island.
“Hard-hit by the Arctic winter, the Waverley route was completely closed from January 6-9, when an avalanche between Whitrope and Riccarton marooned Class A2 4-6-2 No. 60535 Hornet's Beauty.”
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