Note: ‘Maroon’ is also used to refer to ‘a dark red colour with a purple tinge, e.g. ‘She wore a maroon dress to the evening party.’, for an advertisement about maroon colour wine cloth, please click here; an exploding firework used as a signal, usually as a warning signal; and ‘maroon’, as a verb, means ‘to keep somebody on a remote island and leave them there on purpose, usually as a punishment, or a person who is stranded on a remote deserted island because of an accident or a technical problem in his/her boat, or as a result of bad weather’, e.g. ‘Several tourists were marooned on a remote island as the storm grew stronger.’ In this context, the person who is marooned is called a ‘maroon’ For a news article with photos that shows us how this word is used as a verb, please click here.